Milton George Urner was a U.S. Congressman

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 from the sixth district of Maryland

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, serving two terms from 1879 until 1883.

Born in the Liberty district of Frederick County, Maryland

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, Urner was educated in the common schools. He also attended the Freeland Seminary of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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, and Dickinson Seminary of Williamsport, Pennsylvania

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. He engaged in teaching in his native county from 1859–1862, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1863. He commenced practice in Frederick, Maryland

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, and served as State’s attorney for Frederick County from 1871–1875.

In 1878, Urner was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (serving from March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883). While in Congress, Urner served as the chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Forty-seventh Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882, and resumed the practice of his profession in Frederick. He became local attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad

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 Co. in 1887, and served as a member of the Maryland State Senate

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 from 1888 until 1890. He was also appointed naval officer at the port of Baltimore by President Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

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 in 1890.

Urner engaged in banking and other business enterprises later in life, and became a trustee of several educational institutions. He died in Frederick in 1926, and is interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery

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