Robert Grant Furlong was a Democratic

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Biography

Robert G. Furlong was born in Roscoe, Pennsylvania

Roscoe, Pennsylvania

Roscoe is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 848 at the 2000 census.-History:The Allenport & Roscoe Street Railway was formed in 1903 and was purchased by Pittsburgh Railways to form part of their interurban line to Pittsburgh in 1906. The extension to...

. He graduated from the State Teachers College

California University of Pennsylvania

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 in California, Pennsylvania

California, Pennsylvania

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, in 1904 and from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

, in 1909. He taught school at Roscoe, PA, in 1904 and 1905, and practiced medicine in Donora, Pennsylvania

Donora, Pennsylvania

Donora is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela river. Donora was incorporated in 1901. Donora got its name from a combination of William Donner and Nora Mellon, banker Andrew W. Mellon's wife. Agriculture, coal-mining, steel-making, wire-making, and...

, 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

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. He resumed the practice of medicine, and was elected sheriff of Washington County, Pennsylvania

Washington County, Pennsylvania

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, serving from 1945 to 1961.