George W. Gillie

George W. Gillie ( born August 15, 1880 in Berwickshire, Scotland, † July 3, 1963 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Gillie came in 1882 with his parents to the United States, where the family first in Kankakee (Illinois ) settled. In 1884, they moved to Fort Wayne in Indiana, where George attended the public schools. In this city he graduated in 1898, and the International Business College. Between 1899 and 1901 he studied at Purdue University in Lafayette. 1907 ended Gillie his education at the Ohio State University in Columbus. In the following years he worked until 1914 as a veterinarian, meat inspectors and milk inspector in Allen County, Indiana. Since 1914 he was a veterinarian in Fort Wayne. Between 1917 and 1937 he was several times as sheriff sheriff in Allen County.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1938 Gillie in the fourth electoral district of Indiana was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Indus Farley on January 3, 1939. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1949 five legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In 1948, Gillie was defeated by Democrat Edward H. Kruse. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he dealt with agricultural matters. He also was a member of a commission to jury selection (Jury Commissioner) to the federal courts in the northern part of the state of Indiana. George Gillie died July 3, 1963 in Fort Wayne.