Frederick Nicholas Zihlman | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMaryland's6th district | |
| In office March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1931 | |
| Preceded by | David John Lewis |
| Succeeded by | David John Lewis |
| Member of theMaryland State Senate | |
| In office 1909–1917 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1879-10-02)October 2, 1879 Carnegie, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | April 22, 1935(1935-04-22) (aged 55) Cumberland, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (October 2, 1879 – April 22, 1935) was an American congressman representingMaryland's 6th congressional district from 1917 to 1931.
Born inCarnegie,Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, Zihlman moved to Maryland with his parents, who settled inCumberland in 1882. He attended the public schools, and entered a glass factory in 1890 as an apprentice glass blower. He was later president of the local flint-glass workers'union from 1904 to 1909 and was a member of the national executive board in 1905 and 1906. He served as president of the Allegany Trades Council from 1904 to 1909, and as president of the Maryland State Federation of Labor in 1906 and 1907. He engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Cumberland in 1912.
Zihlman served as a member of theMaryland State Senate from 1909 to 1917, serving as Republican floor leader in 1914 and 1916.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth US Congress, but was elected two years later as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1931. In Congress, Zihlman was chairman of theCommittee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses). Zihlman was the only Representative from Maryland to vote for theDyer Anti-Lynching Bill.[1] He was also a member of theCommittee on the District of Columbia (Sixty-seventh Congress and Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses) and theCommittee on Labor (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses).[2]
Zihlman was accused of corruption and bribery in 1929. When the inquiry produced no evidence, he was acquitted.[3][4][5] He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 and again in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.
After his tenure in Congress, he resumed his former business pursuits in Cumberland, until his death there. He is interred in St. John's Cemetery inForest Glen, Maryland.
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| Preceded by | Representative of the 6th Congressional District of Maryland 1917–1931 | Succeeded by |
| Education and Labor (1867–1883) |  | |
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| Education (1883–1947) | ||
| Labor (1883–1947) | ||
| Education and Labor* (1947–) | ||
| Note | * Alternately namedEconomic and Educational Opportunities in 104th Congress andEducation and the Workforce in 105th through 109th and 112th through 115th Congresses. | |
