17 Facts About Adam Wyant

Adam Martin Wyant was an American politician who served as Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Adam Wyant served six terms, a total of twelve years, in the House.

Adam Wyant played football from 1895 until 1897 with the Greensburg Athletic Association, an early professional club from Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Adam Wyant is known for playing collegiate football for Bucknell University and the University of Chicago from 1890 through 1893.

Adam Wyant served at one time as principal of the Greensburg schools before becoming a US Congressman.

Adam Wyant was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962.

Adam Wyant was born near Kittanning on his family's rural farm in the village of Montgomeryville, son of Christian Yerty Wyant and Elizabeth John, both of Washington Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Adam Wyant attended the Mount Pleasant Institute, which is located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and attended Bucknell for three years, playing on pioneer football teams there with his brother Andy.

In 1895, Adam Wyant graduated from the University of Chicago and returned to western Pennsylvania to teach in Mt.

Adam Wyant's teammeates consisted of Lawson Fiscus and Charlie Atherton.

Adam Wyant played quarterback for the team, a position that was not too different from guard in the style of play at the time.

Adam Wyant then commenced the practice of law in Greensburg.

Adam Wyant was interested in coal mining and other business enterprises.

In 1910, Wyant married Katherine N Doty, the daughter of a Westmoreland County judge.

Adam Wyant won the state's 22nd congressional district with the largest majority ever given a Republican candidate in the district's history.

Adam Wyant was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932.

Adam Wyant resumed his former business pursuits and died in Greensburg, after succumbing to cancer on January 5,1935.