George D. Tillman

George Dionysius Tillman ( born August 21, 1826 Curryton, Edgefield County, South Carolina, † February 2nd 1902 in Clarks Hill, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1893 he represented twice the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Tillman was the older brother of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), who was 1890-1894 Governor of South Carolina from 1895 to 1918 and U.S. Senator for that State. He attended public schools in Penfield (Georgia ) and Greenwood (South Carolina). He then began studying at Harvard University, but which he did not finish. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Edgefield.

Politically, Tillman became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1854 and 1855 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. During the Civil War he was 1862-1865 Soldier in the Army of the Confederate States. In 1864 he was again elected to the House of Representatives of his State. In 1865 he was a delegate at a meeting regarding the Revision of the Constitution of South Carolina. In the same year he became a member of the State Senate. 1876 ​​Tillman ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In 1878 he was in the fifth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1879, the succession of Republican Robert Smalls. Until March 3, 1881, he completed a regular term in the House of Representatives. In the elections of 1880 he was confirmed. On 4 March 1881 he entered his second term in office in Congress. The election result was, however, challenged by Robert Smalls, his predecessor and rival candidates. After this appeal was upheld, Tillman was forced to resign from his position on June 19, 1882 at Smalls.

In 1882, Tillman ran successfully in the second district of South Carolina for his return to the Congress. There he met on March 4, 1883 the successor of Edmund William McGregor Mackey of the Republican Party. After four elections he was able to complete up to March 3, 1893 five contiguous legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1891 to 1893 he was chairman of the Patent Committee. 1892 Tillman missed the renewed his party's nomination for a second term. In the following years he worked in agriculture and as a publicist. In 1895 he was member of a commission to revise the Constitution of South Carolina. In 1898, he competed unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of South Carolina. George Tillman died on February 2, 1902 in Clarks Hill.