William M. Treloar

William Mitchellson Treloar (September 21, 1850 – July 3, 1935) was an American music professor, composer, music publisher, and U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Biography Treloar was born near Linden, Wisconsin, and attended the local common schools. His family moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa in 1864, and also taught at the Synodical Female College in nearby Fulton and in the local public schools.

Treloar first entered politics in 1894, serving as a delegate to the Republican state convention and running for Congress against Democratic Congressman Champ Clark, whom he beat during the year of a Republican landslide. The bill was quite controversial, and the subject of extensive lobbying efforts from both supporters and opponents. Although it did not make it out of committee, some of its provisions did later pass.

Upon leaving the House, he became postmaster of Mexico, Missouri from 1898 to 1904.