Grant Furlong

U.S. Congressperson

1886 – 1973

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Who was Grant Furlong?

Robert Grant Furlong was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Furlong was born in Roscoe, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the State Teachers College in California, Pennsylvania, in 1904 and from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1909. He taught school at Roscoe, PA, in 1904 and 1905, and practiced medicine in Donora, Pennsylvania, from 1910 to 1968. During the First 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.

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Born
Jan 4, 1886
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
Mar 19, 1973

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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