George Willard

George Willard ( born March 20, 1824 in Bolton, Chittenden County, Vermont, † March 26, 1901 in Battle Creek, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Willard visited the one hand, public schools and was privately tutored on the other hand also by his father. In 1836 he came with his parents to Battle Creek in Michigan Territory. Then Willard studied until 1844 at Kalamazoo College. Subsequently, he taught as a teacher. After studying theology and its made ​​in the 1848 ordination as a minister of the Episcopal Church, he also began to work in this profession. Until 1863 he worked in churches in Coldwater, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. In 1863 and 1864 he taught the subject at the Latin Kalamazoo College. In the following years he went into the newspaper business in Battle Creek.

Politically, Willard member of the Republican Party. Between 1857 and 1863 he was a member of the Board of Education of the State of Michigan; 1863 to 1872 he was a board member of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In the years 1866 and 1867 Willard sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In 1867 he was also a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated to the President Ulysses S. Grant for re-election. In the congressional elections of 1872 Willard was in the third electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Austin Blair on March 4, 1873. After a re-election in 1874 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1877 two legislative sessions.

In 1876, George Willard gave up another Congress candidate. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities in the newspaper business again. Until his death on 26 March 1901, he was publisher and editor of the "Battle Creek Journal".

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