Hugh A. McMullen
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Hugh Aloysius McMullen (1859 –1937) was an American businessman and politician who served as the Comptroller of Maryland from 1916 to 1920.[1] A Democrat from Allegany County, he was previously active in mining, mercantile trade, and banking.[2]
McMullen was born in Franklin, Maryland on December 9, 1859. He worked in Colorado as a contractor and prospector in the early 1880s before returning to Maryland to operate McMullen Brothers & Company, a mercantile firm.[3] He later helped found the Citizens National Bank of Cumberland and was involved in coal mining enterprises in West Virginia and Kentucky.
McMullen was elected Comptroller in 1915 and re-elected in 1917. During his tenure, he oversaw the state’s fiscal administration and served on the Maryland State Council of Defense during World War I. His term ended in 1920.[4]
He married Anna M. Mulledy in 1889 and had eight children. McMullen died in Cumberland, Maryland, November 6, 1937.[citation needed]
A segment of U.S. Route 220 in Allegany County is named McMullen Highway in his honor.[5][6]
