George W. Lindsay

George Washington Lindsay ( born March 28, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 15, 1938 ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1935 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Washington Lindsay, son of Congressman George H. Lindsay, was born at the end of the civil war in Brooklyn. He attended public schools. Between 1886 and 1892 he was Deputy Coroner in Kings County. Then he went to real estate transactions. He sat in the Democratic State Committee and head of the Assembly the District of 1919 until 1934. As Confidential Investigator at New York State Insurance Department, he worked 1914-1920. In 1920 he was elected to the New York State Assembly, however, refrained from re-election. Between 1921 and 1923 he worked as Deputy Tenement House Commissioner in Brooklyn and Queens.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Kissel on March 4, 1923. He was re-elected five times in a row. In its seventh nomination in 1934, but he was defeated and retired after January 3, 1935 from the Congress of.

Then he went back to real estate transactions. He died on 15 March 1938 in Brooklyn and was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.