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| An Illustrated Congressional Manual. The United States Red Book, 1896, (detail), Collection of U.S. House of Representative |
HEINER, Daniel Brodhead, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Kittanning, Armstrong
County, Pa., December 30, 1854; attended the public schools at Kittanning,
Dayton (Pa.) Academy, and Dickinson Law School at Carlisle, Pa.; was graduated
from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in 1879; was admitted to the bar of
Armstrong County, Pa., in 1882 and commenced practice in Kittanning; also
engaged in banking; elected district attorney of Armstrong County, Pa., in
1885, reelected in 1888, and served until January 1, 1892; chairman of the
Republican county executive committee 1884-1888; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1896; appointed by President McKinley as United
States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania and served
from 1897 to 1902; appointed on February 2, 1902, as internal-revenue collector
for the twenty-third district of Pennsylvania by President Theodore Roosevelt
and served until November 1, 1913; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1920; again served as internal-revenue collector 1921-1933; died
at Kittanning, Pa., on February 14, 1944; interment in Kittanning Cemetery.
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