Joseph J. Yosko

Joseph J. Yosko was an American politician who represented the Lehigh Valley in the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 18th district as a Democrat from 1949 until his death in 1958. He also served in numerous departmental offices starting in 1934.

Early life Yosko was born in Jeanesville, Pennsylvania on November 1, 1903, to Michael and Mary Yosko. While he was still a child his family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Yosko attended a Parochial school. He served a four-year Apprenticeship to become a machinist at the Bethlehem Steel corporation. He then returned to school and got his high school diploma from Bethlehem High school and attended Moravian College. Then he attended Penn State Dickinson Law before transferring to National University School of Law where he earned his Legum Doctor. Yosko married Gertrude Née Reynolds.