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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaGeorge Washington STEELE
(1839-1922)
STEELE, George Washington,
a Representative from Indiana; born near Connersville, Fayette
County, Ind., December 13, 1839; attended the common schools and
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; studied law; was admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Hartford City, Ind.; during the
Civil War served with the Twelfth Indiana Regiment and the One
Hundred and First Indiana Regiment from May 1861, until the close
of the war; commissioned and served in the Fourteenth Regiment,
United States Infantry, from February 23, 1866, to February 1,
1876; resigned and engaged in agricultural pursuits and pork
packing until 1882; first Governor of Oklahoma Territory in 1890
and 1891; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889); member
of the Board of Managers of the National Military Home from April
21, 1890, to December 10, 1904; elected to the Fifty-fourth and to
the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1903);
chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-seventh Congress);
governor of the National Military Home in Marion, Ind., from
December 11, 1904, to May 31, 1915, when he resigned; died in
Marion, Grant County, Ind., July 12, 1922; interment in Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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