George B. Terrell

George Butler Terrell ( born December 5, 1862 in Alto, Cherokee County, Texas, † April 18, 1947 ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Terrell attended the public schools of his home and then the Sam Houston Teachers' College in Huntsville. Then he finished his education with studies at Baylor University in Waco. Between 1886 and 1903, Terrell was a teacher in Cherokee County. In 1897 and 1902 he was a member of the Teachers Examination Commission of the State of Texas. A year later he was a member of the Commission responsible for teaching aids. Since 1903, Terrell worked in Alto in agriculture and especially in the field of animal husbandry. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1898 and 1932 he was several times as a deputy in the Texas House of Representatives. From 1920 to 1931 he was also Minister of Agriculture ( Commissioner of Agriculture) of the State of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Terrell was for the then state- wide established 21 seat of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. At that time the first New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Terrell took his previous agricultural activities on again. He died on 18 April 1947 in his home town of Alto.