Mahlon Morris Garland was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Biography

Mahlon M. Garland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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. He moved with his parents to Alexandria, Pennsylvania

Alexandria, Pennsylvania

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. He learned the trade of puddling and heating, and joined the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers

Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers

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, and later became president for the organization. He was a member of the select council of Pittsburgh in 1886 and 1887. He was appointed by President William McKinley

William McKinley

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 as the United States Collector of Customs (then called surveyor of customs) at Pittsburgh in 1898. He was reappointed by President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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 in 1902 and 1906 and by President William Taft in 1910, serving until March 3, 1915. He served as vice president of the American Federation of Labor

American Federation of Labor

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, as member of the Pittsburgh School Board, and as a member of the borough council of Edgewood, Pennsylvania

Edgewood, Pennsylvania

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Garland was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth

64th United States Congress

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, Sixty-fifth

65th United States Congress

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, and Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 Congresses and served until his death. He served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Mines and Mining

United States House Committee on Mines and Mining

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 during the Sixty-sixth Congress. He had been reelected to the Sixty-seventh

67th United States Congress

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 Congress, but died in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 before the session began. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard