Marlin Edgar Olmsted

Marlin Edgar Olmsted (* May 21, 1847 in Ulysses, Potter County, Pennsylvania, † July 19, 1913 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1913 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marlin Olmsted attended the common schools and Coudersport Academy, also in Pennsylvania. After that, he was for a time for the tax authorities of his state operates. After studying law and his 1878 was admitted to the bar he began in Harrisburg to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1891 he was elected a delegate to the proposed Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Olmsted was in the 14th electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ephraim Milton Woomer on March 4, 1897. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 eight legislatures. Since 1903, he represented there as successor by Thaddeus Maclay Mahon the 18th District of Pennsylvania. In his time as a congressman of the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell. From 1901 to 1909 Olmsted headed the second election committee ( Committee on Elections No.. 2). After that, he was 1909-1911 Chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs. In 1905 he was one of the congressmen who were entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment of the Federal Judge Charles Swayne.

1912 renounced Marlin Olmsted on another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer in Harrisburg again. He died on July 19, 1913 in New York and was buried in Harrisburg.