George Washington Peck

George Washington Peck ( born June 4, 1818 in New York City; † June 30, 1905 in Saginaw, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good primary education George Peck studied at Yale College. After a subsequent study of law in New York and its made ​​in 1842 admitted to the bar he began in Brighton (Michigan), where he had since moved to work in his new profession. In his new home, Peck suggested as a member of the Democratic Party also a political career. In the years 1846 and 1847 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan, which he was president in 1847. When the capital was moved from Michigan to Lansing in 1847, Peck moved to this city, the first postmaster, he was. From 1848 to 1849 Peck served as Secretary of State, the executive officers of the state government of Michigan. During this time he was also active in the newspaper business by acquiring the newspaper " Lansing Journal" and published. From 1852 to 1855 he served as State Printer, the State Printing of Michigan.

In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the fourth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hestor L. Stevens on March 4, 1855. Since he Republican DeWitt C. Leach defeated in the following election in 1856, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

In 1864, George Peck was elected mayor of Lansing. Then he moved to East Saginaw, where he practiced until 1873 as a lawyer. In 1873 he moved to St. Louis in Missouri and 1880 to Hot Springs in Arkansas. Two years later, in 1882, he finally settled in Bismarck ( North Dakota). George Peck died on June 30, 1905 in Saginaw.