Mortimer Fitzland Elliott

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Mortimer Fitzland Elliott (September 24, 1839–August 5, 1920) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Mortimer F. Elliott was born in Cherry Flats, near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, Wellsboro Academy, and Alfred University. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Wellsboro. He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1873.

Elliott was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884. He resumed the practice of law, and served as general solicitor for the Standard Oil Company in New York City. He died in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, 1920. Interment in Wellsboro Cemetery in Wellsboro.

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• Mortimer Fitzland Elliott at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by District created

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's At-large congressional district 1883 - 1885

Succeeded by Edwin S. Osborne