George Turner (U.S. politician)

George Turner ( * February 25, 1850 in Edina, Knox County, Missouri, † January 26, 1932 in Spokane, Washington) was an American politician who represented the state of Washington in the U.S. Senate.

After completing his education in Missouri George Turner closed during the Civil War at a young age the Union Army, where he was active in the telegraphic area until 1865. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Mobile ( Alabama). From 1876 to 1880 he was U.S. Marshal for the Middle and the Southern District Court of Alabama, before he served as Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory from 1885 to 1888.

In 1888, Turner worked again as an independent lawyer in Spokane, where he was also active in the mining industry. In 1889 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of the Territory in which the first constitution was formulated for the new Washington State. In the same year he applied unsuccessfully as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. Senate; In 1893, he failed again. It was not until 1897 he was successful, but this time he ran as candidate of the Silver Republicans, a spin-off of the Republican Party, and was supported by Democrats and Populists. He remained until March 3, 1903 in the Senate and decided not to run again.

1903 Turner was an American delegate in a mediation committee to clarify any dispute over territorial claims with Canada; the following year he applied, in the meantime joined the Democrats unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Washington. After he had acted in 1910 as a legal advisor in the fisheries dispute with Great Britain, he was appointed by U.S. President William Howard Taft in the International Joint Commission, which had the mandate to resolve any discrepancies between the U.S. and Canada on the use of the shared boundary waters. In this commission he first sat from 1911 to 1914; after that he was again from 1918 to 1924 worked as a legal representative of the United States in this body. He then returned to his office in Spokane, where he died in 1932.

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