Daniel Myers Van Auken (January 15, 1826 – November 7, 1908) was a
Democratic
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member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania.
Daniel M. Van Auken was born in
Montague Township, New Jersey. He attended the common schools and
Deckertown Academy. He graduated from
Union College in
Schenectady, New York, in 1852. He studied law, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1855 and commenced the practice of law in
Milford, Pennsylvania. He served as prosecuting attorney of
Pike County, Pennsylvania, from 1855 to 1859. Van Auken was the first Worshipful Master of the Milford Masonic Lodge, No. 344 (which was then No. 82) in Milford, PA from 1862 through 1864.
Van Auken was elected as a Democrat to the
Fortieth and
Forty-first Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in
1870
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. He resumed the practice of law in Milford and served as district attorney of Pike County from 1893 to 1896 and 1899 to 1903. He continued the practice of law until his death in Milford in 1908. Interment in Milford Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
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1826 births
1908 deaths
19th-century American legislators
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
County district attorneys in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania lawyers
People from Milford, Pennsylvania
People from Montague Township, New Jersey
Union College (New York) alumni