Michael Joseph Muldowney (August 10, 1889 – March 30, 1947) was a

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member of the

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from

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. He was born in

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. In 1894, he moved with his parents to

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. He was graduated from

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in Pittsburgh in 1908. He was a member of the

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from 1925 to 1929. He served in the city council of Pittsburgh from 1930 to 1933. Muldowney was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934. He was a member of the State board of mercantile appraisers from 1935 to 1937. He was appointed as the State Unemployment Compensation Referee in 1940 and served in that capacity until his death in Pittsburgh. Muldowney was interred at

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