George P. Darrow

George Potter Darrow ( born February 4, 1859 in Waterford, Connecticut, † June 7, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1937, and again from 1939 to 1941, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Darrow attended the common schools and then studied until 1880 at Alfred University in upstate New York. In 1888 he settled in Philadelphia, where he worked in the banking industry and the insurance industry. He was also involved in the manufacture of paints. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1906 and 1909 he led a regional school board in Philadelphia; 1910 to 1915 he was a member of the local city council.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Darrow was in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat James Washington Logue on March 4, 1915. After ten re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 eleven legislative periods. Since 1923, he represented the seventh district where his state. In 1936 he was not re-elected. After a success in the elections of 1938 he was once again represented the seventh district of his state in Congress between January 1939 and January 3, 1941 3. In Darrow's time as a congressman was among other things the First World War. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration have been adopted.

In 1940, George Darrow gave up another Congress candidate. He died on June 7, 1943 in Philadelphia.