George Washington Fleeger

George Washington Fleeger ( born March 13, 1839 in Concord, Butler County, Pennsylvania, † June 25, 1894 in Butler, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Fleeger attended the common schools and the West Sunbury Academy. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Union, where he rose to 1865 to brevet captain. Zwischzeitlich he became in 1864 a prisoner of war. After a subsequent law degree in 1866 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Butler to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1871 and 1872 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At times he was state chairman of the Republican in Pennsylvania. In the years 1882 and 1890 he took part in the respective republican party conferences in his home state as the delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Fleeger in the 26th electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Henry Miller on March 4, 1885. Until March 3, 1887, he was able to complete a term in Congress. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He died on June 25, 1894 in Butler, where he was also buried.