Berlin was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses . He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936 . After his time in Congress , he served as clerk of the court of Westmoreland County , Pennsylvania , from 1937 to 1941 . He resumed the mining of coal in Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 1941 . He was a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago , and an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican congressional nomination in 1950 . He served as assistant librarian of the United States House of Representatives from February 1 , 1957 , until 1961 when promoted to librarian , and served in that capacity until his death in Greensburg , Pennsylvania
1944 Democratic National Convention
1944 Democratic National Convention
William M. Berlin