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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriGeorge Howard WILLIAMS
(1871-1963)
Senate Years of Service:
1925-1926Party: RepublicanWILLIAMS, George Howard, a
Senator from Missouri; born in California, Moniteau County, Mo., on
December 1, 1871; attended the public schools; graduated from the
preparatory department of Drury College, Springfield, Mo., in 1890,
from Princeton University in 1894, and from the Washington
University Law School, St. Louis, Mo., in 1897; admitted to the bar
in 1897 and commenced practice in St. Louis; judge of the circuit
court of the city of St. Louis 1906-1912; delegate at large to the
Missouri constitutional convention in 1922 and 1923; appointed on
May 25, 1925, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Selden P. Spencer and served
from May 25, 1925, to December 5, 1926, when a duly elected
successor qualified; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to
fill the vacancy in 1926; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control
the Contingent Expenses (Thirty-ninth Congress), Committee on
Private Land Claims (Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses); resumed
the practice of law in St. Louis until 1943, when he retired and
moved to Sarasota, Fla., where he died November 25, 1963; interment
in Masonic Cemetery, California, Mo.
Bibliography
Williams, George H. Article V. of the Constitution: An Address
Delivered Before the Oklahoma State Bar Association at Tulsa,
December Second, 1927. Tulsa: Oklahoma State Bar Association,
1927.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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