Rowland B. Mahany

Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany ( born September 28, 1864 in Buffalo, New York, † May 2, 1937 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1899 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rowland Mahany attended the public schools of his home, the Hobart College in Geneva and the Union College in Schenectady. In 1888 he graduated from the Harvard University. In the same year, he worked as an associate editor for the newspaper Buffalo Express; 1889 to 1890 he was a teacher at the local high school. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1890 he declined an appointment at the U.S. embassy in Chile. Between 1892 and 1893 he was an American ambassador in Ecuador. In the meantime, he was a candidate in 1892, still unsuccessfully for Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Mahany but was then elected in 32 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Daniel N. Lockwood on March 4, 1895. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. In 1898 he was not re-elected.

After studying law and his 1899 was admitted as a lawyer in Buffalo Mahany began to work in this new profession. From 1899 to 1906 he was a harbor commissioner in Buffalo; in the years 1910 and 1911, he was out there a newspaper. In the years 1914 and 1915 and from 1918 to 1919, he worked in various capacities for the U.S. Department of Labor. In 1919, he also chaired the Foreign Ministry's Foreign Relation Committee trades. He was a member of various other agencies of the Federal Government. In 1920 he represented the United States in Geneva on an international immigration and emigration conference. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he has to be changed to a non- exact time specified for the Democratic Party. In the years 1924 and 1928, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. He died on 2 May 1937 in Washington, and was buried at the local cemetery Congress.