George Washington Covington

George Washington Covington ( born September 12, 1838 in Berlin, Maryland, † April 6, 1911 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1885 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Covington attended the common schools and the Buckingham Academy. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1861 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his native Berlin in this profession. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1867 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1880 Covington was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Maynadier Henry on March 4, 1881. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1885 two legislative sessions. Since 1883 he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts. In 1884 Covington opted not to run again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 6, 1911 in New York.

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