- Grant Furlong
Robert Grant Furlong (
January 4 ,1886 –March 19 ,1973 ) was a Democratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Robert G. Furlong was born in
Roscoe, Pennsylvania . He graduated from the State Teachers College inCalifornia, Pennsylvania , in 1904 and fromJefferson Medical College inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , in 1909. He taught school at Roscoe, PA, in 1904 and 1905, and practiced medicine inDonora, Pennsylvania , from 1910 to 1968. During theFirst World War , Furlong served as a first lieutenant with the Two Hundred and Eightieth Ambulance Company, Twentieth Division. He served as a burgess of Donora from 1922 to 1926 and again in 1941 and 1942. He served as postmaster of Donora from 1933 to 1938.Furlong was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944. He resumed the practice of medicine, and was elected sheriff of
Washington County, Pennsylvania , serving from 1945 to 1961.References
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fulwood-fyke.html The Political Graveyard]
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