George Farmer Burgess

George Farmer Burgess ( born September 21, 1861 in Wharton, Wharton County, Texas, † December 31, 1919 in Gonzales, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1917 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Burgess attended the public schools of his home. In 1880 he moved with his mother in the Fayette County, where he worked in agriculture. Later he was employed as a store clerk. After a subsequent law degree in 1882 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession in La Grange. In 1884 he moved to Gonzales, where he was a 1886-1889 district attorney in the local Gonzales County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Burgess was in the tenth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert B. Hawley on March 4, 1901. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1917 eight legislatures. Since 1903, he represented there as the successor of Albert S. Burleson the ninth district of his state. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

1916 George Burgess sought unsuccessfully to Nomierung his party for election to the U.S. Senate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He died on December 31, 1919 in Gonzales, where he was also buried.