In December 1939 , state auditor general Warren R. Roberts appointed Pytko to the Board of Mercantile Appraisers , a part of the taxation bureaucracy of the state . He traveled to the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago as a member of the Pennsylvania delegation . The Pennsylvania delegates united on the choice of Roosevelt for a third term , but split over the vice presidency , with Pytko unsuccessfully backing Governor Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri . The Board of Mercantile Appraisers was abolished in 1943 , its functions transferred to the State Department of Revenue . Starting in 1945 , Pytko worked as the administrative assistant to state treasurer Ramsey S. Black . In 1947 , the Democrats nominated him for Receiver of Taxes , but he lost to Republican W. Frank Marshall in the general election that year
1940 Democratic National Convention
1940 Democratic National Convention
Walter S. Pytko