George Shiras III

George Shiras III ( born January 1, 1859 in Allegheny, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, † March 24, 1942 in Marquette, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Shiras III was the son of the federal judge George Shiras Jr. ( 1832-1924 ). He attended the common schools and then the Phillips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts ). In 1881, he graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. After a subsequent law degree from Yale College and his 1883 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Pittsburgh in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1889 and 1890 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; in 1890, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet.

In the congressional elections of 1902 was Shiras as an independent Republican in the 29th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Galusha A. Grow on March 4, 1903. Since he resigned in 1904 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1905. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Shiras operated in biological research. He made himself a name as a photographer of landscapes and wildlife. In 1935 he published a two-volume album with his photographs. He died on March 24, 1942 in Marquette, where he was also buried.