Milton W. Shreve was born in
Chapmanville, Pennsylvania. He 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
Erie County district attorney 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. He was buried in
Erie Cemetery. ==See also==