George D. Perkins

George Douglas Perkins (* February 29, 1840 in Holley, Orleans County, New York, † February 3, 1914 in Sioux City, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1899 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Perkins attended the public schools of his home. He later moved to Baraboo in Wisconsin, where he served an apprenticeship in the printing trade. In 1860 he moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where he led the newspaper "Gazette " published until 1866. Between August 1862 and January 1863 he was during the Civil War soldier in the Union army. From 1866 to 1869 Perkins worked in Chicago for the Northwestern Associated Press. From 1869 he lived in Sioux City, where he also edited a newspaper.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1874 and 1876 he was a member of the Senate of Iowa. In the years 1880 and 1882 he was immigration agent of the government of the State of Iowa. Subsequently, he was from 1883 to 1885 responsible as U.S. Marshal for the northern Iowa. In the years 1876, 1880, 1888, 1908 and 1912 was Perkins delegate to the Republican National Conventions on each.

1890 Perkins was in the tenth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1891, the successor of Isaac S. Struble. After three re- elections, he was able to complete 1899 four contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. At that time, among other things, the Philippines and the former Kingdom of Hawaii came under American administration.

In 1898, Perkins was not nominated by his party for another term of office. Then he went back to his journalistic tasks by further published a newspaper in Sioux City. George Perkins died on February 3, 1914 and was buried in Sioux City.