George B. Shaw

George Bullen Shaw ( born March 12, 1854 in Alma, Allegany County, New York; † August 27, 1894 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1894 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1856 came George Shaw with his father to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools. Then he studied until 1871 at the International Business College in Chicago (Illinois ). After his return to Wisconsin Shaw was active in the lumber business. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. Between 1876 and 1887 he was a member of the council of Eau Claire, 1888-1889 he was mayor of this place. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the James G. Blaine as their presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1892 George Shaw was the seventh constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Frank P. Coburn on March 4, 1893. Shaw could not finish its actually runs until March 3, 1895 legislative session in Congress, because he already died on 27 August 1894. He was buried in Eau Claire.