George W. Weymouth

George Warren Weymouth ( born August 25, 1850 in West Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, † September 7, 1910 in Bingham, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Weymouth attended the public schools of his home, including the Merrimac High School. In 1882 he moved to Fitchburg, where he worked in coach. He later became manager of the company Simonds Rolling Machine Co. Weymouth has been renowned for the banking industry and was 1892-1901 Director of the Fitchburg National Bank. He was also in numerous other companies in various industries in the board. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1886 he became a member of the Municipal Council of Fitchburg; In 1896 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the same year he was a delegate attended the Republican National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated on the William McKinley as presidential candidates.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Weymouth was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lewis D. Apsley on March 4, 1897. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. Weymouth in 1900 renounced a new Congress candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he moved to Fairhaven, where he. President of the Atlas Tack Corp. had. He died on September 7, 1910 in a car accident near Bingham and was buried in Fairhaven.