George H. Durand

George Harman Durand ( born February 21, 1838 in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York, † June 8, 1903 in Flint, Michigan) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Durand attended the public schools of his native Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and in Lima. In 1856 he moved to Oxford in Michigan, where he worked as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1858 admitted to the bar he began in Flint to work in his new profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

Durand was a member of the Education Committee of his new hometown of Flint and sat from 1862 to 1867 in the City Council. In 1873 and 1874 he was mayor of Flint. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Josiah Begole on March 4, 1875. Since 1876 he Republican Mark S. Brewer defeated in the elections of the year, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives George Durand initially worked as a lawyer again. In 1892 he was appointed temporary judge of the Michigan Supreme Court. For many years, Durand was a member of the Commission to review the state laws of Michigan (State board of law examiners ). Between 1893 and 1896 he was deputy special federal prosecutor in Oregon. There he dealt among other things with cases of illegal opium trade. After that he held no other official position more. George Durand died on June 8, 1903 in his hometown of Flint, where he was also buried.

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