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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutGeorge Payne McLEAN
(1857-1932)
Senate Years of Service:
1911-1929Party: RepublicanMcLEAN, George Payne, a
Senator from Connecticut; born in Simsbury, Hartford County, Conn.,
October 7, 1857; attended the common schools; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.;
member, State house of representatives 1883-1884; member of the
commission to revise the Connecticut statutes 1885; member, State
senate 1886; United States district attorney for Connecticut
1892-1896; resumed the practice of law in Hartford; Governor of
Connecticut 1901-1902; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate in 1911; reelected in 1916 and again in 1922 and served from
March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1929; declined to be a candidate for
reelection in 1928; chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and
Game Protection (Sixty-second and Sixty-fifth Congresses),
Committee on Banking and Currency (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Manufactures (Seventieth Congress);
resumed the practice of law in Hartford, Conn.; died in Simsbury,
Conn., June 6, 1932; interment in Simsbury Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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