George Ainslie (delegate)

George Ainslie (* October 30, 1838 in Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri, † May 19, 1913 in Oakland, California ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the Idaho Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

George Ainslie attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1857, the Saint Louis University and the Jesuit College in St. Louis. After a subsequent law degree, he was admitted in 1860 as a lawyer. Then he began in his hometown of Boonville exercise this profession. About Colorado he arrived in 1862 in the Idaho Territory. He worked both in mining as well as a lawyer.

Political career

George Ainslie was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1865 and 1866 he was a deputy in the territorial House of Representatives. Between 1869 and 1873 Ainslie was editor of the newspaper " Idaho World". Thereafter, he served from 1874 to 1876 as a district attorney for the second judicial district of the Idaho Territory. In 1878 he was elected as a candidate of his party as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Southmyd Stephen Fenn replaced on March 4, 1879. After a re-election in 1880 Ainslie could implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1883. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was defeated by Republican Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser.

After the end of his activities in Washington Ainslie withdrew from politics. In Boise, he built the first electric tram in the city. He later moved to Oakland, where he died in 1913. After his death, his urn at the Neptune Society Columbarium of San Francisco was buried.