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Frederick Nicholas Zihlman
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 6th district
In office March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1931
Preceded by	David John Lewis
Succeeded by	David John Lewis
Member of the Maryland 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 representing Maryland's 6th congressional district from 1917 to 1931.

Biography

Born in Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, Zihlman moved to Maryland with his parents, who settled in Cumberland 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.

Politics

Zihlman served as a member of the Maryland 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 the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses). Zihlman was the only Representative from Maryland to vote for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. He was also a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Sixty-seventh Congress and Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses) and the Committee on Labor (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses).

Zihlman was accused of corruption and bribery in 1929. When the inquiry produced no evidence, he was acquitted. 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 in Forest Glen, Maryland.

References

1. "TO PASS H. R. 13. -- House Vote #169 -- Jan 26, 1922". GovTrack.us. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
2. Rosemary Stevens (2016). "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau". Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421421315.
3. \ Indictments--A Grand Congressional Tradition Since 1798 | June 05, 1994
4. Rosemary Stevens (2016). "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau". Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421421315.
5. "House To Drop Case Against Zihlman: Probers Find Charges Of Bribery Against Maryland Man Not Established". The Baltimore Sun. May 15, 1924.

• United States Congress. "Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (id: Z000007)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

v t e Chairmen of the United States House Committee on the District of Columbia
Lewis Love Van Horne Lewis Kent Tucker Herbert Kent Alexander Powers Doddridge Washington Chinn Shepard Bouldin W. Johnson Underwood Campbell Hunter Chapman Inge Brown Ficklin Hamilton Matteson Dodd Goode Carter Conkling Lovejoy Dumont Ingersoll Cook Starkweather Hale Buckner Blackburn Hunton Neal Barbour Hemphill Grout Hemphill Heard Babcock Smith B. Johnson Mapes Zihlman Focht Reed Zihlman Norton Palmisano Randolph McMillan Dirksen McMillan Simpson McMillan Diggs Dellums Stark

v t e Chairs of the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Education and Labor (1867–1883)	Baker Cary Arnell Perce Monroe Walker Goode Updegraff Sherwin
Education (1883–1947)	Aiken Candler O'Donnell Hayes Brunner Enloe Grow Southwick Burke Lever Hughes Sears Fess Dallinger Reed Douglass Palmisano Larrabee Barden
Labor (1883–1947)	Hopkins O'Neill Wade Tarsney McGann Phillips Gardner Wilson Lewis Maher Smith Nolan Zihlman Kopp Welch Connery Norton
Education and Labor* (1947–)	Hartley Lesinski Barden McConnell Barden Powell Perkins Hawkins Ford Goodling Boehner McKeon Miller Kline Foxx Scott Foxx Walberg (designate)
Note	Alternately named Economic and Educational Opportunities in 104th Congress and Education and the Workforce in 105th through 109th and 112th through 115th Congresses.

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• 20th-century Maryland politicians
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