George A. Neeley

George Arthur Neeley ( born August 1, 1879 in Detroit, Pike County, Illinois; † January 1, 1919 in Hutchinson, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1912 and 1915 he represented the seventh election district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Neeley attended the public schools in Joplin ( Missouri) and Wellston (Oklahoma). Subsequently, he studied until 1902 at the Southwestern Baptist University in Jackson ( Tennessee). Neeley completed his training in 1904 with a law degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence. In the following years he worked as a farmer, teacher and lawyer.

Politically, Neeley member of the Democratic Party. In 1910 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet. After the death of Mr Edmond H. Madison in 1911 Neeley was in the seventh district of Kansas as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. This mandate he stepped on 9 January 1912. After a re-election at the regular elections of 1912 he could remain until March 3, 1915 at the Congress. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress were discussed and adopted. It was about the nationwide introduction of the income tax and the direct election of U.S. senators. In 1914 he gave up another run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.

After the end of his activities in the federal capital, George Neeley has held no higher political offices more. He died on 1 January 1919 in Hutchinson and was buried in Chandler (Oklahoma).

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