Milton W. Shreve Explained

Milton William Shreve
Image Name:Milton William Shreve.JPG
Birth Date:3 May 1858
Birth Place:Chapmanville, Pennsylvania
State1:Pennsylvania
Constituency1:25th district
Term1:March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915
March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923
Preceded1:Arthur L. Bates (1913)
Henry A. Clark (1919)
Succeeded1:Michael Liebel, Jr. (1915)
Henry W. Temple (1923)
Constituency2:29th district
Term2:March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1933
Preceded2:Stephen G. Porter
Succeeded2:Charles N. Crosby
Office3:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term3:1907–1912
Party:Republican

Milton William Shreve (May 3, 1858 – December 23, 1939) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Milton W. Shreve was born in Chapmanville, Pennsylvania. He attended the Edinboro State Normal School and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1884. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Erie County, Pennsylvania and commenced practice in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was the Erie County district attorney from 1899 to 1902. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1907 to 1912 and in the session of 1911 succeeded to the speakership.

Shreve was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He resumed the practice of law in Erie, and also engaged in banking and interested in several manufacturing plants. He was again elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress; reelected as an Independent Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress and as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932. He resumed the practice of law in Erie until his death there. He was buried in Erie Cemetery.

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