George Peter Foster

George Peter Foster ( born April 3, 1858 in Dover, Morris County, New Jersey, † November 11, 1928 in Wheaton, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1905 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1867 George Foster came to Chicago, where he attended the public schools. Later he studied at the University of Chicago. After a subsequent law degree from Union College of Law and his 1882 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, he began to work in this profession. Between 1891 and 1899 he was a Justice of the Peace in South Chicago. From 1893 to 1899 he also worked as a police judge. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1898 Foster was in the third electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Hugh R. Belknap on March 4, 1899. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 three legislative periods. Since 1903, he represented there as a successor to James McAndrews the fourth district of his state. In 1904 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Foster practiced as a lawyer again. From 1912 to 1922 he was an Assistant Corporation Counsel with the legal advisers of the city of Chicago. He died on 11 November 1928 in Wheaton and was buried in Chicago.

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