George E. Gorman

George Edmund Gorman ( born April 13, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 13, 1935 ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Gorman attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree from the Georgetown University in Washington DC and his 1895 was admitted to the bar he began in 1896 to work in Chicago in this profession. Between 1897 and 1900 he was deputy prosecutor there. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1912, he was elected in the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William W. Wilson on March 4, 1913. Since he resigned in 1914 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Gorman practiced again as a lawyer in Chicago. From 1920 to 1928 he was again deputy prosecutor. Since 1930 he worked at the District Court as Master in Chancery. He died on January 13, 1935 in Chicago, where he was also buried.