George Swinton Legaré

George Swinton Legare ( born November 11, 1869 in Rockville, Charleston County, South Carolina; † January 31, 1913 in Charleston, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Soon after his birth moved with his parents George Legare to Charleston. There he attended until 1889 the Porter Military Academy. After a subsequent law studies at the University of South Carolina and Georgetown University in Washington DC and its made ​​in 1893 admitted to the bar he began in Charleston to work in his new profession. Between 1893 and 1903, Legare as an economic consultant ( Corporation Counsel ) operates.

Politically, Legare member of the Democratic Party. In 1902, he was elected in the first district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William Elliott on March 4, 1903. After he was confirmed in the following elections in each of its mandate, Legare could remain until his death on 31 January 1913 at the Congress. Also in the elections of 1912 he was re-elected. This would have allowed up to the March 3, 1915 him another term of office. His mandate was made after a special election to Richard S. Whaley.