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Melvin O. McLaughlin
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 4th district
In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1927
Preceded by	Charles Henry Sloan
Succeeded by	John N. Norton
Personal details
Born	(1876-08-08)August 8, 1876 Osceola, Iowa
Died	June 18, 1928(1928-06-18) (aged 51) York, Nebraska
Political party	Republican

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

Biography

Born in Osceola, Iowa on August 8, 1876, he moved to Nebraska in 1884. He graduated from College View High School, and graduated from the Lincoln, Nebraska Normal University and the Nebraska State Normal School at Peru (now Peru State College). He taught school near Lincoln from 1895 to 1900. He went back to school at the Iowa Christian College at Oskaloosa, Iowa; Omaha University (now University of Nebraska at Omaha), and the Union Biblical Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, becoming a minister.

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

References

1. "McLAUGHLIN, Melvin Orlando - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-26.

1. "McLaughlin, Melvin Orlando". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved January 17, 2006.
2. "McLaughlin, Melvin Orlando". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 17, 2006.

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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1st district	A. Weaver McShane Connell Bryan Strode Burkett Pollard Maguire Reavis Thorpe Morehead Luckey Heinke Sweet Copeland Curtis P. Weaver Beermann Callan Denney Thone Bereuter Fortenberry Flood
2nd district	Laird Laws McKeighan Mercer G. Hitchcock Kennedy G. Hitchcock Lobeck Jefferis Sears Baldrige Burke C. McLaughlin Buffett O'Sullivan Buffett Hruska Chase Cunningham McCollister Cavanaugh Daub Hoagland Christensen Terry Ashford Bacon
3rd district	Valentine Dorsey Kem Meiklejohn Maxwell Robinson McCarthy Boyd Latta Stephens Evans Howard Stefan Harrison Brock Beermann Martin V. Smith Barrett Osborne A. Smith
4th district	Hainer Stark Hinshaw Sloan M. McLaughlin Norton Sloan Norton Shallenberger Binderup Curtis Miller McGinley Martin
5th district	McKeighan Andrews Sutherland Shallenberger Norris Barton Shallenberger Andrews Shallenberger Johnson Shallenberger Carpenter Coffee
6th district	Kem Greene Neville Kinkaid Humphrey Simmons
At-large	Marquett Taffe Crounse Welch Majors Valentine
Territory	Giddings Chapman Ferguson Estabrook Daily P. Hitchcock

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