George McGill
U.S. Congressperson
1879 – 1963
Who was George McGill?
George S. McGill was an American politician from Kansas.
Born in Lucas County, Iowa, he moved with his parents to Kansas when he was 5. He graduated from Central Normal College in Great Bend, Kansas at the turn of the century and was admitted to the state bar two years later. McGill then moved to Wichita, Kansas where he was made deputy county attorney and then county attorney for Sedgwick County, Kansas. He was elected to the Senate on November 4, 1930 to replace Senator Charles Curtis, who resigned to become Vice President of the United States. In the Senate, he was the chairman of the committee on pensions and was particularly involved in the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He was re-elected in 1932 but lost re-election bids in 1938, 1942, 1948 and 1954. McGill was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as a member of the U.S. Tariff Commission, a post he held until 1954. He died in St. Francis Hospital in Wichita in 1963 and was buried in Pawnee Rock Cemetery, in Pawnee Rock, Kansas.
Kansas has elected only three Democratic US Senators; McGill is the only one of the three to serve more than one 6-year term.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1879
Russell - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Iowa
- Died
- May 14, 1963
Wichita
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on July 23, 2013
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