George Edmund Foss

George Edmund Foss ( born July 2, 1863 in West Berkshire, Vermont, † March 15, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1919 he represented two times the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Foss was the younger brother of Governor Eugene Foss ( 1858-1939 ). He attended the common schools and then studied until 1885 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law studies at various universities and his 1889 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Foss was in the seventh election district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas J. Henderson on March 4, 1895. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 nine legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Since 1903 was represented Foss tenth district of his state. From 1899 to 1911 he headed the committee for maritime affairs. In 1912 he was not re-elected.

In the 1914 elections Foss was elected again in the tenth district of his state in Congress. After a re-election, he completed there between 4 March 1915, and the March 3, 1919 two other legislative periods, which were shaped by the events of the First World War. In 1918 he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Foss again practiced as a lawyer. In 1932 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on 15 March 1936 in Chicago, where he was also buried.