Rowland B. Mahany

Rowland B. Mahany

Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany (born September 28, 1864 in Buffalo , New York , †  May 2, 1937 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rowland Mahany attended his homeland public schools, Hobart College in Geneva and Union College in Schenectady . In 1888 he graduated from Harvard University . In the same year he worked as an associate editor for the Buffalo Express newspaper ; from 1889 to 1890 he was a teacher at the local high school. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party at the time . In 1890 he declined an appointment to the American embassy in Chile . Between 1892 and 1893 he was the American envoy to Ecuador . In the meantime he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1892 .

In the congressional elections of 1894 Mahany was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the 32nd  electoral district of New York, where he succeeded Democrat Daniel N. Lockwood on March 4, 1895 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1899 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . In 1898 he was not re-elected.

After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1899, Mahany began working in this new profession in Buffalo. From 1899 to 1906 he was port commissioner in Buffalo; in 1910 and 1911 he published a newspaper there. In 1914 and 1915 and from 1918 to 1919 he worked in various functions for the US Department of Labor . In 1919 he was also a member of the Foreign Trades Relation Committee, which was subordinate to the Foreign Ministry . He was also a member of various other federal government agencies. In 1920 he represented the United States in Geneva at an international immigration and emigration conference. Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer. Politically, he must have switched to the Democratic Party at an unspecified time. In 1924 and 1928 he took part as a delegate to their Democratic National Conventions . He died on May 2, 1937 in Washington and was buried in the convention cemetery there.

Web links

• Rowland B. Mahany in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Wullweber	United States Envoy to Ecuador May 22, 1892 - June 23, 1893	Edward Henry Strobel
Daniel N. Lockwood	United States House Representative for New York (32nd constituency) March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1899	William H. Ryan