Melvin Orlando McLaughlin (August 8, 1876 – June 18, 1928) was an American Republican Party politician.

Biography

Born in

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on August 8, 1876, he moved to Nebraska in 1884. He graduated from College View High School, and graduated from the

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Normal University and the Nebraska State Normal School at

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(now

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). He taught school near Lincoln from 1895 to 1900. He went back to school at the Iowa Christian College at

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; Omaha University (now

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), and the

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, becoming a minister. He served as a minister in the United Brethren Church in Omaha from 1900 to 1913. He moved to

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, in 1913 becoming president of York College until 1918. In 1918 he ran for the Sixty-sixth congress as a Republican representing the 4th district of Nebraska. He won the election and was reelected three more times serving from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1927. He ran and lost in 1926 for the 70th congress. Afterwards he engaged in mining and investments. He died in York on June 18, 1928, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

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# # * 1876 births 1928 deaths United Theological Seminary alumni University of Nebraska Omaha alumni Heads of universities and colleges in the United States Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska People from Osceola, Iowa People from York, Nebraska 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Nebraska-politician-stub