George Evans (American politician)

George Evans ( born January 12, 1797 in Hallowell, Massachusetts, † April 6, 1867 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician ( Whig Party ), who represented the state of Maine in both chambers of Congress.

Evans came into the world, located in the 1820 split off from Massachusetts Maine today in Hallowell Kennebec County. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1815, he studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Gardiner.

His political career began Evans as a deputy in the House of Representatives of Maine, where he served in 1829 as Speaker. In the same year he was a candidate in a by-election to the House of Representatives of the United States for the seat of the exchanged in the Senate Peleg Sprague and was victorious. He was a member of the parliamentary chamber until his resignation on March 3, 1841; during this period he was also Chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the Treasury.

Evans moved as before Sprague within the Congress in the Senate. Here he was, among others, Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Manufactures. In 1846 he ran for re-election, but was defeated by Democrat James W. Bradbury. As a result, he again worked as a lawyer in Portland, but was still politically active. He was chairman of a Commission for the Investigation of claims against Mexico after the Mexican-American War. In his home state of Maine also he held 1850-1858 multiply the Office of the Attorney General.