George Scott Graham

George Scott Graham ( * September 13, 1850 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † July 4, 1931 in Islip, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1931 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Graham attended the public schools of his home. At times, he has also taught privately. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania and his 1871 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1877 and 1880 he sat in the City Council of Philadelphia. Between 1880 and 1899 he was district attorney in Philadelphia County. He then practiced in Philadelphia and New York City again as a lawyer. From 1887 to 1898 he, alongside his work as a prosecutor and a professor of criminal law at the University of Philadelphia. In 1892 and 1924 he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Graham was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William S. Reyburn on March 4, 1913. After nine elections he could remain until his death on July 4, 1931 in Congress. Since 1923 he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. Moreover, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

George Graham was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City.