George McClellan (New York)

George McClellan ( born October 10, 1856 in Schodack, New York, † February 20, 1927 in Kinderhook, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George McClellan was born about five years before the outbreak of the civil war in Rensselaer County. He attended public schools and the local academies of Spencertown and Chatham. 1880 graduated from the Albany Law School. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Chatham. McClellan was for two terms served as Police Justice and ten years as president of the Columbia County Agriculture Society. He serve as postmaster in Chatham. Between 1907 and 1913 he was Guardianship and restructuring judge in Columbia County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Parte.

In the congressional elections of 1912 for the 63rd Congress McClellan was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles A. Talcott on March 4, 1913. He suffered in his renewed candidacy in 1914 a defeat and then retired after the March 3, 1915 from the Congress of.

After his conference time he went to Chatham again his work as a lawyer after. In 1920 he took part in San Francisco as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. He moved to Kinderhook, where he died on 20 February 1927. His body was then buried in the same cemetery in Nassau.