George L. Yaple

George Lewis Yaple ( born February 20, 1851 in Leonidas, St. Joseph County, Michigan, † December 16, 1939 in Mendon, Michigan) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1857, George Yaple moved with his parents to Mendon, where he attended the public schools. After that he went to the Albion College before he studied until 1874 at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois ). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1872 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession from 1877 in Mendon. In between, he spent five years in agriculture. At the same time suggested Yaple a political career.

In 1880, he ran unsuccessfully for the short-lived Greenback Party for Congress. Thereafter he joined the Democrats. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was appointed as their candidate in the fourth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Julius C. Burrows on March 4, 1883. Since he lost to Burrows in the elections of 1884, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1885.

Yaple competed unsuccessfully in 1886 for the office of the Governor of Michigan. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, on the U.S. President Grover Cleveland was nominated for re-election. He then worked again as a lawyer in Mendon. Between 1894 and 1911 Yaple judge in the 15th Judicial District of Michigan. In 1916 he moved over to the Republican Party. The following years until his death on 16 December 1939 he spent in Mendon retired. There he was also buried.