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Mahlon Morris Garland (May 4, 1856 – November 19, 1920) was a
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member of the
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from
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.


Early life and career

Garland was born in
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. He moved with his parents to
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. He learned the trade of puddling and heating, and joined the
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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.


Political career

He was appointed by President
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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
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in 1902 and 1906 and by President
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in 1910, serving until March 3, 1915. He served as vice president of the
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, as member of the Pittsburgh School Board, and as a member of the borough council of Edgewood, Pennsylvania.


Congress

Garland was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses and served until his death. He served as Chairman of the
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during the Sixty-sixth Congress. He had been reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, but died in
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before the session began. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery in Pittsburgh.


See also

*
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Sources


The Political GraveyardMahlon M. Garland, late a representative from Pennsylvania, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1922
1856 births 1920 deaths Politicians from Pittsburgh People from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania American Federation of Labor people Ironworkers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub