Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany (September 28, 1864 – May 2, 1937) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Buffalo, New York, Mahany attended the public schools, Hobart College, Geneva, New York, and Union College, Schenectady, New York.He graduated from Harvard University in 1888.He studied law in Buffalo, New York.He served as associate editor of the Buffalo Express in 1888.Instructor in Buffalo High School in 1889 and 1890.He declined the appointment as secretary of the legation to Chile in 1890.He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador on February 24, 1892, and served until his resignation on June 12, 1893.He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress.He returned to Ecuador in 1893 and concluded the Santos Co