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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriGeorge Graham VEST
(1830-1904)
Senate Years of Service:
1879-1903Party: DemocratVEST, George Graham, a
Senator from Missouri; born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky.,
December 6, 1830; graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in
1848 and from the law department of Transylvania University,
Lexington, Ky., in 1853; admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced
practice in Georgetown, Mo.; moved to Boonville, Mo., in 1856;
Democratic presidential elector in 1860; member, State house of
representatives 1860-1861; judge advocate with the Confederate
forces in Missouri in 1862; served in the house of representatives
of the Confederate Congress from February 1862 to January 1865,
when he resigned, having been appointed to fill a vacancy in the
Confederate Senate; resumed the practice of law in Sedalia, Mo., in
1865; moved to Kansas City in 1877; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate; reelected in 1885, 1891 and 1897 and served
from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1903; chairman, Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Epidemic
Diseases (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Public Health and
National Quarantine (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh
Congresses); due to ill health, retired from public life and
resided at Sweet Springs, Saline County, Mo., until his death on
August 9, 1904; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis,
Mo.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Holsinger, M. Paul. “Senator George Graham
Vest and the ‘Menace’ of Mormonism, 1882-1887.”
Missouri Historical Review 65 (October 1970): 23-36; Kuhr,
Manuel Irwin, “How George Vest Came to Missouri.”
Missouri Historical Review 59 (April 1965): 424-27.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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