George B. Loring

George Bailey Loring ( born November 8, 1817 in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, † September 14, 1891 in Salem, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Loring attended the Franklin Academy in Andover and then taught himself for some time as a teacher. At the same time he studied until 1838 at Harvard University. After a subsequent medical studies at the same university in 1842 and was admitted to his doctor, he started working in this profession for some time in North Andover. Between 1843 and 1850 he was a physician at the Naval Hospital in Chelsea. In addition, he served from 1842 to 1844 as a medical advisor of the Seventh Regiment of the state militia of Massachusetts. In 1849 he was entrusted with the elaboration of reform plans for the hospital system of the United States Navy. Since 1851 he lived in Salem, where he was postmaster from 1853 to 1858.

Politically Loring was a member of the Democratic Party before the Civil War. During the war he joined the Republicans. In the years 1866 and 1867 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. From 1869 to 1876 he was State Chairman of the Republican Party in Massachusetts. From 1873 to 1876 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate, which he was president. In the years 1868, 1872 and 1876 Loring participated as a delegate from the respective Republican National Conventions, where Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes were later nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1872 he was Federal Commissioner for the State of Massachusetts for the 1876 planned 100-year celebration of American independence.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Loring was in the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Perkins Thompson on March 4, 1877. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions. In 1880, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. Between 1881 and 1885, officiated Loring as agricultural commissioner of the federal government. Between 1889 and 1890 he was the successor of Edward Parke Custis Lewis American ambassador in Portugal. He died on 14 September 1891 in Salem.

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