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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaGROW, Galusha Aaron
(1823—1907)
GROW, Galusha Aaron, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Ashford (now Eastford), Windham County, Conn., August 31, 1823; moved to Glenwood, Susquehanna County, Pa., in May 1834; attended the common schools and Franklin Academy, Susquehanna County; graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., in 1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Susquehanna County in 1847 and practiced; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful Republican nominee for Speaker in 1857; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-seventh Congress); delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1864, 1884, and 1892; president of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad Co. of Texas 1871-1876; returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in lumber, oil, and soft-coal pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Lilly; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from February 26, 1894, to March 3, 1903; chairman, Committee on Education (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); declined a renomination in 1902; died in Glenwood, near Scranton, Pa., March 31, 1907; interment in Harford Cemetery, Harford, Pa.
Bibliography
Ilisevich, Robert D. Galusha A. Grow: The People’s Candidate.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.
Dubois, James T., and Gertrude S. Mathews. Galusha A. Grow, Father of the Homestead Law.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.
Grow, Galusha Aaron. Admission of Kansas
. [Washington: N.p., 1856].
———. Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Free homes for free men
. [Washington: Republican executive congressional committee, 1860].
———. Independence of Cuba
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Justice to the pioneer settler. Speech of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, May 3, 1900
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1900.
———. Kansas—the Lecompton constitution. Speech of Hon. G. A. Grow, of Pennsylvania. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 25, 1858
. [Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858].
———. President’s message. Free coinage of silver. Protective tariff best for revenue. Speeches of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in the House ... December 12, 1895, February 13, and March 17, 1896
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1896.
———. Remarks ... in the House ... January 31, 1898, on concurrent resolutions for payment of bonds in silver
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Responsibility for organizing the House, and for the defeat of the Post-office appropriation bill
. [N.p., 1859].
———. Speeches in the House
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898.
———. Speeches of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in the House of representatives March 10, June 14, 1898, and February 13, 1896
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Speeches of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, made in the House of representatives, Fifty-fifth Congress
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
Ilisevich, Robert D. Galusha A. Grow: The People’s Candidate.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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