"Robert Furlong" redirects here. For the Canadian sniper who made the longest kill shot in history until 2009, see Rob Furlong.
Robert Grant Furlong (January 4, 1886 – March 19, 1973) was an American physician and politician who served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1943 to 1945.
Robert G. Furlong
From Volume III (1926) History of Washington County, Pennsylvania
He taught school at Roscoe, PA, in 1904 and 1905, and practiced medicine in Donora, Pennsylvania, from 1910 to 1968. During the First World War, Furlong served as a first lieutenant with the Two Hundred and Eightieth Ambulance Company, Twentieth Division. He served as a burgess of Donora from 1922 to 1926 and again in 1941 and 1942. He served as postmaster of Donora from 1933 to 1938.
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Furlong was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1944.
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