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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsGeorge Russell STOBBS
(1877-1966)
STOBBS, George Russell, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Webster, Worcester
County, Mass., February 7, 1877; attended the public schools of
Webster, and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated
from Harvard University, in 1899 and from its law department in
1902; was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commenced practice in
Worcester, Mass.; special justice for the central district court of
Worcester 1909-1916; captain in the State Guard of Massachusetts
1917-1920; assistant district attorney for the middle district of
Massachusetts 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses (March 4,
1925-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930;
one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in
1926 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W.
English, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Illinois; major and subsequently lieutenant colonel in
the Judge Advocate General’s Department, Officers’
Reserve Corps, 1927-1942; delegate to the Interparliamentary
Congress, London, England, in 1930; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1932, and to the Republican State
conventions in 1940 and 1942; resumed the practice of law in
Worcester, Mass.; died in Worcester, Mass., December 23, 1966;
interment in Rural Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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