George C. Wortley

Who was George C. Wortley?

George Cornelius Wortley was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Wortley was born in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Syracuse University in 1948. Wortley was a brother of the Gamma-Iota chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He was elected to Congress in 1980 and served from January 3, 1981 until January 3, 1989. He was the leading minority member of the House Banking Finance and Urban Affairs Committee and was actively involved in working with European, Latin American and Pacific Rim leaders on financial and development bank matters. He also served on the House Ethics and Select Aging Committees.

He was instrumental in the development and passage of legislation enacting the first program to provide Reverse Mortgages to seniors.

He was a Director of Dierman, Wortley & Zola, Inc. and Washington Solutions, consultants on public policy and financial strategies. He also served on the Advisory Board of National Security Studies, a U.S. Department of Defense Executive Development program. He served as a Senior Policy Advisor with The Carmen Group and the Financial Institutions Services Corp..