Education
He was born in Saint John"s, the son of James Furlong, and was educated there and at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal.
He was born in Saint John"s, the son of James Furlong, and was educated there and at the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal.
He represented Saint John"s East in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1893 to 1904 and was speaker for the assembly from 1894 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1904. Furlong opened his own business as a commission agent in 1890. He ran unsuccessfully for the Saint John"s East in the assembly in 1889.
In 1893, he was elected as a tory in Saint John"s East.
He was chosen chairman of the Board of Works in April 1894 but resigned to become speaker of the assembly in August. He was reelected in Saint John"s East in 1897 and 1900 as a Liberal.
In 1905, he was named cashier for the Newfoundland Savings Bank. Furlong died in Saint John"s of acute bronchitis at the age of 52.