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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkMcCLELLAN, George Brinton
(1865—1940)
McCLELLAN, George Brinton, a Representative from New York; born November 23, 1865, in Dresden, Saxony, where his parents were visiting; attended St. John’s School, Sing Sing (now Ossining), N.Y.; was graduated from Princeton College in 1886; worked as a reporter and in editorial positions on several New York newspapers; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in New York City; treasurer of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge 1889-1893; president of the Board of Aldermen of New York City in 1893 and 1894; delegate to all Democratic National, State, and city conventions between 1890 and 1903; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, to December 21, 1903, when he resigned, having been elected mayor of New York City; served as mayor from 1903 to 1910; university lecturer on public affairs 1908-1912; elected professor of economic history at Princeton University in 1912; an incorporator, trustee, and vice president of the American Academy in Rome; during the First World War entered the military service as major in the Ordnance Department in May 1917 and was honorably discharged in May 1919 as lieutenant colonel; commissioned colonel in the Ordnance Officers’ Reserve Corps; resumed his position at Princeton University; resided in Washington, D.C., until his death on November 30, 1940; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Bibliography
McClellan, George B. The Gentleman and the Tiger.
Edited from the original manuscript in the possession of the New-York Historical Society, by Harold C. Syrett. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1956.
McClellan, George Brinton. European Economic Policy
. [Princeton, N.J.: The Falcon Press, 1916].
———. The Gentleman and the Tiger; Autobiography.
Edited from the original manuscript in the possession of the New-York Historical Society, by Harold C. Syrett. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1956.
———. The Heel of War
. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., [1916].
———. Modern Italy ; A Short History
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1933.
———. My Objections to the Financial Bill. Speech of Hon. Geo. B. McClellan, of New York, in the House ... December 11, 1899
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1899.
———. Payment of United States Bonds
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
———. Venice and Bonaparte
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1931.
———. War Tariff. Speech of Hon. Geo. B. McClellan, of New York, in the House of Representatives, April 28, 1898
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1898.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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