John N. Scales [SEP] position held
John N. Scales
John N. Scales is a former member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, serving from 1973 to 1974. Prior to his time in the Senate, he served as the District Attorney for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania from 1969-1972 and as the Assistant District Attorney from 1966-1969. He was elected as a delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1967. An alumnus of Yale University and Harvard Law School, he was the college roommate of Dick Thornburgh, an eventual Pennsylvania Governor and United States Attorney General.
a hand holding the scales of justice. Across Italy the gesture remained in use as one for making points in conversation when moved about to express discursive precision, but when held still in an upright position with fingers jutting skyward, it became an emblem of perfection.
Early records of the sign's usage in the English-speaking world date to British physician-philospher John Bulwer's 1644 "Chirologia", "The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof." Among the many