George W. Ray
U.S. Congressperson
1844 – 1925
Who was George W. Ray?
George Washington Ray was a United States Representative from New York.
Born in Otselic, he attended the common schools and Norwich Academy. During the Civil War he was a private in Company B, Ninetieth New York Volunteers, and brigade clerk, First Brigade, First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps. He was discharged at the close of the war and studied law, gaining admission to the bar in November 1867. He was chairman of the Republican county committee of Chenango County and was a member of the Republican State committee in 1880.
Ray was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress, holding office from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. He was a member of the board of education of Norwich Academy and Union Free School, and was then elected to the Fifty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1891 to September 11, 1902; while in the House he was chairman of the Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River and a member of the Committees on Invalid Pensions and the Judiciary.
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- Born
- Feb 3, 1844
United States of America - Also known as
- George Ray
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Norwich
- Died
- Jan 10, 1925
Norwich
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on July 23, 2013
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