- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott
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Mortimer Fitzland Elliott (September 24, 1839 – August 5, 1920) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Mortimer F. Elliott was born in Cherry Flats, near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, Wellsboro Academy, and Alfred University. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Wellsboro. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1873.
Elliott was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884. He resumed the practice of law, and served as general solicitor for the Standard Oil Company in New York City. He died in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, 1920. Interment in Wellsboro Cemetery in Wellsboro.
Sources
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- The Political Graveyard
Preceded by
District createdMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's At-large congressional district
1883 - 1885Succeeded by
Edwin S. OsborneCategories:- 1839 births
- 1920 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Alfred University alumni
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs
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