George W. Dunlap

George Washington Dunlap ( born February 22, 1813 near Lexington, Kentucky, † June 6, 1880 in Lancaster, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Dunlap received a good basic education. Until 1834 he studied at Transylvania University in Lexington. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Lancaster to work in this profession. He then worked from 1843 for the district court. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1853 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1860 Dunlap was a Unionist in the sixth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Green Adams on March 4, 1861. Until March 3, 1863, he was able to complete a term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the Civil War. In 1861 he was a member of an assembly of delegates from the border states between the North and the South. During his two -year stint in the U.S. House of Representatives Dunlap was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department. In 1862 he was one of the accusers given by Congress in the impeachment proceedings against the federal judge West Hughes Humphreys.

After his time in Congress, George Dunlap practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 6 June 1880 in Lancaster, and was also buried there.