George W. Edmonds

George Washington Edmonds ( born February 22, 1864 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, † September 28, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1925, and again from 1933 to 1935, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Edmonds attended the public schools of his home and then the Central High School. Subsequently, he studied until 1887 at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Subsequently, he worked for several years as a pharmacist. He also entered the coal trade. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1896 and 1902 he sat in the City Council of Philadelphia.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Edmonds was in the fourth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Reuben O. Moon on March 4, 1913. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 six legislative periods. This period was, among other things, the First World War. In addition, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. 1924 Edmonds was not nominated by his party for re-election.

In the following years he worked in the coal and timber trade. Between 1927 and 1933 he was a manager with the Port Authority in Philadelphia ( Port of Philadelphia Ocean Traffic Bureau). In the 1932 elections Edmonds was re-elected in the fourth district of his state in Congress, where he Benjamin M. Golder replaced on March 4, 1933 which was in 1925 became his successor. Since he has not been confirmed in 1934, he was able to complete just one more legislative session until January 3, 1935. During this time the first of the New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Edmonds ' party faced a rather negative. 1933 was repealed with the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th amendment, Article from 1919 again. It was about the nationwide Prohibition Prohibition. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends, or begins on January 3.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Edmonds took his previous activities in the coal trade again. He died on 28 September 1939 in Philadelphia.