Melvin O. McLaughlin

Melvin Orlando McLaughlin ( born August 8, 1876 in Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa, † June 18, 1928 in York, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1927 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1884, Melvin McLaughlin came with his parents to Nebraska. There he attended the public schools and the College View High School. He then studied at the Lincoln Normal University and the Nebraska State Normal School in Peru. Between 1895 and 1900 he worked as a teacher in a school near Lincoln. He then continued his education at Iowa Christian College in Oskaloosa and the present University of Nebraska in Omaha continued. At the end of his studies, he completed the Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton (Ohio ). Between 1900 and 1913 he was pastor of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (United Brethren Church ) in Omaha. After moving to York in 1913, he served until 1918 as president of York College.

Politically, McLaughlin was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1918, he was elected as its candidate in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Charles Henry Sloan on March 4, 1919. After he was confirmed in the following three congressional elections each in this mandate, he could remain until March 3, 1927 at the Congress. 1926 McLaughlin defeated Democrat John N. Norton. After he retired from politics and devoted himself to his private business, which included the mining and investment industry. McLaughlin died in 1928 in York.