Mial Eben Lilley (May 30, 1850 – February 28, 1915) was a Republican member of the

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from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. He was born in

Canton, Pennsylvania Canton is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 1,723 at the 2020 census. Geography Canton is located in southwestern Bradford County at (41.655805, -76.850706), in ...

. He worked as a

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several years. He studied law in Canton, was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Towanda, Pennsylvania. For several years he was chairman of the Republican committee of Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He was elected prothonotary of Bradford County in 1893 and reelected in 1896. He was appointed assistant United States district attorney for the middle district of Pennsylvania in 1903. Lilley was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906. He engaged in the practice of his profession until his death in Towanda in 1915, aged 64; he was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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