George Frederic Kribbs

George Frederic Kribbs ( born November 8, 1846 Clarion County, Pennsylvania, † September 8, 1938 in Kissimmee, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born on a farm George Kribbs attended the public schools of his home and then the Emlenton Academy. In 1873 he graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown. After a subsequent law degree in 1875 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Clarion to work in this profession. In 1876 and 1889 he was mayor there also. Between 1877 and 1889 he published the newspaper Clarion Democrat. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Kribbs the 28th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Kerr on March 4, 1891. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions. In 1894, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Kribbs again practiced as a lawyer. He was also once mayor of Clarion. He was also CEO of Clarion State Normal School. In 1896 he moved into the Osceola County, Florida, where he first grew oranges. Since 1907 he lived in the local city of Kissimmee, where he worked as a lawyer again. In 1908 he was prosecutor in Oceola County; in the years 1909 and 1910, he served there as a judge. He then worked again as a lawyer until 1926. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on September 8, 1938 in Kissimmee, where he was also buried.