Milton William Shreve

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Milton William Shreve (May 3, 1858–December 23, 1939) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Milton W. Shreve was born in Chapmanville, Pennsylvania. She attended the Edinboro State Normal School and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1884. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Erie County, Pennsylvania and commenced practice in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was the district attorney of Erie County from 1899 to 1902. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1907 to 1912 and in the session of 1911 succeeded to the speakership.

Shreve was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He resumed the practice of law in Erie, and also engaged in banking and interested in several manufacturing plants. He was again elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress; reelected as an Independent Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress and as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932. He resumed the practice of law in Erie until his death there. Interment in Erie Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Arthur L. Bates	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district 1913 - 1915	Succeeded by Michael Liebel, Jr.
Preceded by Henry A. Clark	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district 1919 - 1923	Succeeded by Henry W. Temple
Preceded by Stephen G. Porter	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 29th congressional district 1923 - 1933	Succeeded by Charles N. Crosby