George Cookman Sturgiss

George Cookman Sturgiss ( born August 16, 1842 in Poland, Mahoning County, Ohio, † February 26, 1925 in Morgantown, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Sturgiss attended the public schools of his home. In 1859 he moved to Morgantown, which was still part of Virginia at that time. There he attended the Monongalia Academy. He then worked at this school, even for a short time as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1863 admitted to the bar he began in Morgantown to work in his new profession. During the Civil War he was employed by the Paying Agent of a volunteer unit. Between 1865 and 1869 he was a school board in Monongalia County.

Sturgiss was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1870 and 1872 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia. From 1872 to 1880 he was district attorney. In 1880 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of West Virginia, where he clearly defeated Democrat Jacob B. Jackson. Between 1889 and 1893 Sturgiss was Attorney for the District of West Virginia. In his state, he became the first president of the Trade Committee and the Council on improving the state highways.

1906 Sturgiss in the second district of West Virginia was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Beall Davis of the Democratic Party on March 4, 1907. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 two legislative sessions. In the elections of 1910 he was defeated by Democrat William Gay Brown. After his time in Congress Sturgiss was curator of the American University in the capital Washington. He was also instrumental in the construction of the Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad. Between 1912 and 1920 he worked as a district judge and then returned to the bar. George Sturgiss died on 26 February 1925.