Later that year, during World War I, he enlisted in the United States Army as a private in the Quartermaster Corps at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
[6] In the 1952 United States House of Representatives election, he was the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district.
He was president of the Northern Liberties Hospital in 1935 and the Golden Slipper Square Club in 1936.
They had a daughter, Majorie E.[1] By the time Witkin died, he was married to Gale Brodnick.
[6] Witkin died of heart failure at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on April 20, 1973.