George A. Loud

George Alvin Loud ( born June 18, 1852 in Bainbridge, Geauga County, Ohio, † November 13, 1925 in Myrtle Point, Oregon ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1917 he represented two times the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1856, George Loud moved with his parents to Massachusetts and ten years later to Au Sable in Michigan. He attended the English High School in Boston and Professor Patterson 's School in Detroit. In 1869 he graduated from the Ann Arbor High School. Later he went into the railroad business and was Vice President and Manager of the Au Sable & Northwestern Railroad. He also spent four years as a member of the staff of Governor Hazen S. Pingree. During the Spanish- American War of 1898 was Loud purser on the ship " McCulloch " that participated in the bay of Manila on a naval battle.

Politically Loud was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was in the tenth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry H. Aplin on March 4, 1903. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 five legislative sessions. In the 1912 elections he was defeated Roy O. Woodruff of the Progressive Party.

In 1914, he managed to return to the Congress, where he replaced Woodruff again on March 4, 1915, until March 3, 1917 completed a further term of office. Since he had not been nominated by his party for re-election in 1916, he had to finally retire from the U.S. House of Representatives in March 1917. After the end of his time as a congressman George Loud worked in Au Sable in the timber industry. He died on November 13, 1925 in a car accident in Oregon.