Daniel B. Heiner | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's21st district | |
| In office March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1897 | |
| Preceded by | George Franklin Huff |
| Succeeded by | Edward Everett Robbins |
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| Born | Daniel Brodhead Heiner (1854-12-30)December 30, 1854 Kittanning, Pennsylvania |
| Died | February 14, 1944(1944-02-14) (aged 89) Kittanning, Pennsylvania |
| Resting place | Kittanning Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Allegheny College Dickinson School of Law |
Daniel Brodhead Heiner (December 30, 1854 – February 14, 1944) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a two-termRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania from 1893 to 1897.
Daniel Brodhead Heiner, Jr. was born inKittanning, Pennsylvania, the son of Daniel Brodhead Heiner, Sr. and Mary. G. Graham of Kittanning, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools at Kittanning, Dayton Academy inDayton, Pennsylvania, andDickinson School of Law atCarlisle, Pennsylvania. He graduated fromAllegheny College inMeadville, Pennsylvania, in 1879.
He was admitted to the bar ofArmstrong County, Pennsylvania, in 1882 and commenced practice in Kittanning. He was also engaged in banking. He was electeddistrict attorney of Armstrong County in 1885, reelected in 1888, and served until January 1, 1892. He was chairman of the Republican county executive committee from 1884 to 1888.
Heiner was a direct descendant of Revolutionary War veteran Brigadier GeneralDaniel Brodhead, through his great-grandmother, Ann Garton Brodhead, who was Brodhead's elder daughter.[1]
Heiner was elected as a Republican to theFifty-third andFifty-fourth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in1896.
He was appointed by PresidentWilliam McKinley asUnited States district attorney for theWestern District of Pennsylvania and served from 1897 to 1902.
He was appointed on February 2, 1902, as internal-revenue collector for the twenty-third district of Pennsylvania by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt and served until November 1, 1913. He was a delegate to the1920 Republican National Convention. He again served as internal-revenue collector from 1921 to 1933.
He died in Kittanning in 1944, and was interred in the Kittanning Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 21st congressional district 1893–1897 | Succeeded by |
