George Alexander Pearre

George Alexander Pearre (* July 16, 1860 in Cumberland, Maryland, † September 19, 1923 ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1911 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Pearre first attended private schools and then the Allegany County Academy and the James College near Hagerstown. After he graduated from Princeton College. By 1880, he studied at West Virginia University. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and his 1882 was admitted as a lawyer, he began in 1887 to work in Cumberland in this profession. Between 1887 and 1892 belonged to Pearre and the National Guard of Maryland, where he rose to lieutenant colonel. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. From 1890 to 1892 he sat in the Senate of Maryland. In 1895 to 1899 he was district attorney in Allegany County.

In the congressional elections of 1898 Pearre in the sixth constituency of Maryland was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John McDonald on March 4, 1899. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 six legislative periods. In 1910 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Pearre again practiced as a lawyer. He died on September 19, 1923 in his hometown of Cumberland, where he was also buried.