George W. Prince

George Washington Prince ( born March 4, 1854 Tazewell County, Illinois, † September 26, 1939 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1913 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Prince George attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1878, Knox College in Galesburg. After a subsequent law degree in 1880 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Galesburg in this profession. Between 1881 and 1883 he was a lawyer of this city. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1884, he became its chairman in Knox County. From 1888 to 1892 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois. In 1892, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of his home state.

After the death of Mr Philip S. Post Prince was in due election for the tenth seat of Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1895. After seven elections he could remain until March 3, 1913 at the Congress. Since 1903, he represented the 15th legislative district where his state. In his time as a congressman of the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell. Between 1899 and 1901, he Prince Chairman of the Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics. Between 1905 and 1909 he headed the committee to improve the dikes on the Mississippi. Later he headed from 1909 to 1911, the Committee of Claims. In 1912 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives George Prince moved to Los Angeles, where he practiced until 1917 as a lawyer. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on September 26, 1939 in Los Angeles.