George R. Stobbs

George Russell Stobbs ( born February 7, 1877 in Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † December 23, 1966 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1931 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Stobbs attended the public schools of his home and then the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter (New Hampshire). Subsequently, he studied until 1899 at Harvard University. After studying law at the same university and his 1902 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Worcester in this profession. Between 1909 and 1916 he served as a judge in the judicial district of Worcester. Between 1917 and 1920 he was a captain in the National Guard of Massachusetts. At this time he was also deputy prosecutor.

Politically, Stobbs member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1924 he was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Winslow on March 4, 1925. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 three legislative periods. In 1926 he was one of the congressmen who were entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment of Federal Judge George W. English. In 1930 he was a delegate to an inter-parliamentary conference in London.

In the same year Stobbs renounced a new Congress candidacy. From 1927 to 1942 he served as Major and Lieutenant Colonel in the legal department of the reserve officer ( Judge Advocate General's Department ) operates. In June 1932 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, to the President Herbert Hoover was nominated for ultimately failed re-election. In the years 1940 and 1942 Stobbs was also a delegate to the regional party days of the Republicans in Massachusetts. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 23 December 1966 in Worcester.