George M. Chilcott

George Miles Chilcott (* January 2, 1828 in Cassville, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † March 6, 1891 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician who represented the state of Colorado in the U.S. Senate.

A native of Pennsylvania George Chilcott moved with his parents in 1844 in Jefferson County, Iowa. There he studied medicine until 1850. In 1853 he was sheriff of Jefferson County; Three years later he moved to the Nebraska Territory. There he worked as a member of the Territorial House of Representatives for the first time politically. In 1859 he finally settled in Colorado Territory, where he was in 1861 for a one-year term of office a member of the Territorial Council. He studied the law and was admitted to the bar in 1863, after which he worked as a notary for the United States Land Office until 1867.

This year, he then pulled a for Republicans as delegate to the Colorado Territory to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained until 1869; in the sequence, he entered again at the Territorialrat. After the founding of the State of Colorado in 1878, he belonged to the House of Representatives. On April 17, 1882, he then entered the U.S. Senate to the provisional successor to the retiring Henry Moore Teller. He resigned on 27 January 1883 from the Senate and retired after from politics.