George W. Faris

George Washington Faris (* June 9, 1854 in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, † April 17, 1914 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1901 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Faris attended the common schools and then studied until 1877 at the Asbury University in Greencastle, DePauw University later emerged from the. After studying law and its made ​​in 1877 admitted to the bar he began in Indianapolis to work in this profession. In 1880 he moved his residence and his office to Terre Haute. There he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1884 he applied unsuccessfully for the post of District Judge.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Faris was selected in the eighth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Elijah V. Brookshire on March 4, 1895. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 three legislative periods. Since 1897 he represented there as a successor of Jesse Overstreet the fifth district of his state. In his time as a congressman of the Spanish-American War fell from 1898.

In 1900, George Faris gave up another Congress candidate. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced first again as a lawyer in Terre Haute. But he soon attracted to the capital Washington, where he continued his legal work. There he died on April 17, 1914. He was buried in Terre Haute.