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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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ZIHLMAN, Frederick Nicholas, a Representative from Maryland; born in Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pa., October
2, 1879; moved to Maryland with his parents, who settled in Cumberland in 1882; attended the public
schools; entered a glass factory in 1890 and apprenticed as a glass blower; president of the local
flint-glass workers union 1904-1909 and was a member of the national executive board in 1905 and
1906; president of the Allegany Trades Council 1904-1909; president of the Maryland State
Federation of Labor in 1906 and 1907; member of the Maryland State senate 1909-1917, serving as
Republican floor leader in 1914 and 1916; engaged in the real estate and insurance business in
Cumberland, Md., in 1912; was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth
Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1917-March 3, 1931); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
(Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on District of Columbia (Sixty-seventh
Congress and Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Labor (Sixty-seventh and
Sixty-eighth Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 and for election in
1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits in Cumberland, Md.,
where he died on April 22, 1935; interment in St. John's Cemetery, Forest Glen, Md.
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