Roy Cornell

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Roy Cornell portrait.jpg

| name =Roy W. Cornell

| state_house = Pennsylvania

| district =152nd

| term_start = January 2, 1979{{cite web |title = Session of 1979 - 163rd of the General Assembly - Vol. 1, No. 1|work = Legislative Journal| publisher = Pennsylvania House of Representatives |date = 1979-01-02|url = http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/HJ/1979/0/19790102.pdf}}

| term_end = January 1, 2004

| predecessor = Stewart Greenleaf

| successor = Susan Cornell

| birth_date = December 5, 1943

| birth_place = Abington, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|01|01|1943|12|05}}

| death_place = Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| party = Republican

| alma_mater = Temple University

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Roy W. Cornell (December 5, 1943 – January 1, 2004) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

He was a 1961 graduate of Hatboro-Horsham High School and attended Santa Ana Junior College. He graduated from Temple University and from the North Philadelphia Board of Realtors School.{{cite web| title = Roy W. Cornell (Republican)| work = Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile| publisher = Pennsylvania House of Representatives| url = http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/memberinfo/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=152| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20020225154300/http://www2.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/memberinfo/house_bio.cfm?districtnumber=152| archivedate = 2002-02-25| url-status = dead}} He was first elected to represent the 152nd legislative district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1978. He was the House Republican Caucus Secretary from 1993 to 1994 and was elected Republican Policy Chairman in 1997. He died on January 1, 2004, of a brain tumor.http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FFE8CDCCA0F7A70&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}{{cite web | last = Cox | first = Harold | title = Pennsylvania House of Representatives - 2003-2004 | publisher = Wilkes University | date = November 3, 2004 |work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| url = http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/187H.pdf}}