Mahlon Morris Garland

Mahlon Morris Garland ( born May 4, 1856 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † November 19, 1920 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1920 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his childhood moved Mahlon Garland with his parents to Alexandria, where he attended the public schools. He later worked in the metal industry. He joined the local union of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and became its president. In the years 1886 and 1887 he sat in the City Council of Pittsburgh. From 1898 to 1915 he headed the Federal Customs Authority in Pittsburgh. In the trade union movement he rose to become Vice President of the American Federation of Labor. He also served on the school board of his hometown Pittsburgh. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Garland was elected in state-wide 33 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Arthur Ring Walt Rupley on March 4, 1915. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on November 19, 1920 in Congress. Since 1919 he was chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining. During his time in Congress, the First World War fell. Also, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

At the time of his death Mahlon Garland had already been re-elected for the period beginning on March 3, 1921 legislative session. He was buried in Pittsburgh.