George E. Outland

George Elmer Outland ( born October 8, 1906 in Santa Paula, California, † March 2, 1981 in Anacortes, Washington ) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1947 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Outland attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1928 the Whitier College. This was followed up in 1929 to study at Harvard University. Later he studied until 1937 at Yale University philosophy. He finished his education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In the 1930s, Outland worked in Massachusetts and California in youth work for boys. Between 1935 and 1936 he headed the Community College in New Haven ( Connecticut ). Until 1937, he taught at Yale; after which he was a member until 1942 the faculty of the Santa Barbara State College. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1942 and 1950 he was a delegate to the regional party days of the Democrats in California. In the years 1944 and 1948 he took part in the respective Democratic National Conventions, to which Franklin D. Roosevelt and later Harry S. Truman was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1942 Outland was in the eleventh electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Carl Hinshaw on January 3, 1943. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1947 two legislative sessions. During this time, ended the Second World War. In 1946 he was not re-elected. Between 1948 and 1950 led George Outland, the State Democratic Policy Committee. From 1947 to 1972 he was on the faculty of San Francisco State College. He spent his life in Anacortes, where he died on 2 March 1981.