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Peter A. Garland

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Peter A. Garland
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine's 1st district
In office
January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963
Preceded byJames C. Oliver
Succeeded byStanley R. Tupper
Personal details
Born
Peter Adams Garland

(1923-06-16)June 16, 1923
Boston, Massachusetts, US
DiedJanuary 26, 2005(2005-01-26) (aged 81)
Brunswick, Maine, US
Resting placeOak Grove Cemetery in Bath, Maine
Political partyRepublican
Alma materBowdoin College

Peter Adams Garland (June 16, 1923 – January 26, 2005) was an American businessman and military veteran who served as a one-term U.S. Representative from Maine, serving from 1961 to 1963.

Early life

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Garland was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Saco public schools and the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1945.

Career

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Garland was an officer and director of Garland Manufacturing Co. in Saco, Maine, and Snocraft Co. in Norway, Maine.

Military service

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He served as an enlisted man in the United States Air Corps from 1943 to 1946.

Business career

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director of the New England Council and Associated Industries of Maine from 1955 to 1957. Garland also served as a member of the Saco Superintending School Committee from 1952 to 1954.

He served as mayor of Saco from 1956 to 1959, and was a New England field adviser for the Small Business Administration from 1958 to 1960.

Congress

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Garland was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963).[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962, and an unsuccessful candidate to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966.

After Congress

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Garland was a municipal town manager for Gorham, Maine from 1967 to 1969, a marketing director for an engineering firm from 1970 to 1972, and a city manager for Claremont, New Hampshire from 1972 to 1973. Additional public service included his being a community manager for Ocean Pines, Ocean City, Maryland from 1973 to 1974, a town manager for Searsport, Maine from 1974 to 1981,[2] and a city manager for Bath, Maine from 1981 to 1989.

Death and burial

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Garland died on January 26, 2005, in Brunswick, Maine.[3] He is interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bath, Maine.

References

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  1. ^ "Rep. Peter Garland". govtrack.us. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  2. ^ "GARLAND, Peter Adams, (1923 - 2005)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  3. ^ "Peter A. Garland, public servant was ex-congressman; 81". boston.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine's 1st congressional district

1961–1963
Succeeded by