George MacKinnon

George Edward MacKinnon ( born April 22, 1906 in Saint Paul, Minnesota; † 1 May 1995 Potomac, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, George MacKinnon attended 1923-1924, the University of Colorado at Boulder. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and his admission to the bar he began to work in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1935 and 1942 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Minnesota; there he was Chairman of the Legal Committee. During the Second World War, he served 1942-1946 in the U.S. Navy.

In the congressional elections of 1946, MacKinnon was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the deceased in August 1946 William Gallagher on 3 January 1947. In Congress he was a member of the education and labor committee. Since 1948, he defeated Democrat Roy Wier in the elections of the year, he was able to complete only one term in the U.S. House of Representatives until January 3, 1949.

Between 1953 and 1958, MacKinnon was United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota. In 1958 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Minnesota; he was defeated by Democratic incumbent Orville Freeman. In the years 1960 and 1961 he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. After that, he was 1961-1969 Advisor to the organization Investors Mutual Funds. After the assumption of office of Republican President Richard Nixon in 1969, McKinnon was appointed Federal Court Judge for the District of Columbia. This office he held until his death in 1995. From 1979 to 1982 he was also Chairman of Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. Between 1985 and 1991 he was also a member of the United States Sentencing Commission.

George MacKinnon died on 1 May 1995 in Potomac and was buried in Long Lake ( Minnesota). He was married to Elizabeth Valentine Davis on 20 August 1928. His daughter Catharine is a well-known women's rights activist in the United States.