Francis Marvin
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Francis Marvin was a U.S. Representative
United States House of Representatives
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 from New York
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Born in New York City, Marvin attended the public schools in Port Jervis, Orange County.
He entered upon a commercial career and engaged in the promotion, construction, and operation of railroads, water-supply companies, bridges, manufacture of illuminating gas, and in banking.
Postmaster of Port Jervis in 1851.
He was in the Justice of the Peace
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 in the town of Deerpark in 1852.
He was employed as bookkeeper in a bank in 1856.
He was an unsuccessful candidate of the Republican Party
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 for member of the assembly in 1864 and for the State senate in 1881.
He was president of the village of Port Jervis in 1865.

Marvin was elected as a Republican
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 to the Fifty-third
53rd United States Congress
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 Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1894 and devoted his time to the management of his several business enterprises.
He died in Port Jervis, New York
Port Jervis, New York
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, August 14, 1905.
He was interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery.

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