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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkHenry GEORGE, Jr.
(1862-1916)
GEORGE, Henry, Jr., a
Representative from New York; born in Sacramento, Calif., November
3, 1862; attended the common schools; at the age of sixteen entered
a printing office where he was employed for one year; moved with
his parents to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1880; reporter on the Brooklyn
Eagle in 1881; in 1884 accompanied his father as his secretary on a
lecture tour of Great Britain, at the close of which he joined the
staff of the London Truth; returned to this country and joined the
staff of the North American Review; managing editor of the Standard
1887-1891; served as correspondent in Washington, D.C., for a
syndicate of Western papers in 1891; correspondent in England for
the same syndicate in 1892; in 1893 became managing editor of the
Florida Citizen at Jacksonville; returned to New York City in 1895;
on the death of his father in 1897 was nominated to succeed him as
the candidate of the Jefferson Party for mayor of New York City,
but was unsuccessful; special correspondent in Japan in 1906;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for
reelection in 1914; engaged in literary pursuits until his death in
Washington, D.C., on November 14, 1916; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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