George W. Morrison

George Washington Morrison ( born October 6, 1809 in Fairlee, Orange County, Vermont, † December 21, 1888 in Manchester, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1850 and 1851, and again from 1853 to 1855, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Morrison attended the public schools of his home including the Thetford Academy. He then worked himself for some time as a teacher. After studying law and its made ​​in 1835 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new career in Manchester.

Morrison was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1840 and 1841 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. Between 1845 and 1849 he served as a prosecutor in Hillsborough County; 1849 to 1850 he was in the state Senate. Following the resignation of Congressman James Wilson Morrison was elected to the necessary by-election in the third electoral district of New Hampshire as his successor in Congress. There he finished between 8 October 1850 and 3 March 1851, the legislature Unopened his predecessor. But since he lost to Jared Perkins of the Whig Party in the regular congressional elections of 1850, he had to resign from the Congress in March 1851.

In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington again in the second electoral district of New Hampshire. There he entered on March 4, 1853, the successor of Charles H. Peaslee. Because he failed in the election of 1854 at Mason Tappan of the American Party, he could spend up to March 3, 1855 only one term in the House of Representatives, which was determined by intense debate focused on the question of slavery.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives George Morrison was still working as a lawyer until 1872. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 21 December 1888 in Manchester and was also buried there.