 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaGeorge Douglas WISE
(1831-1898)
WISE, George Douglas,
(cousin of John Sergeant Wise and Richard Alsop Wise and nephew of
Henry Alexander Wise), a Representative from Virginia; born at
“Deep Creek,” the Wise estate in Accomack County, near
Onancock, Va., June 4, 1831; was graduated from Indiana University
at Bloomington; studied law in the College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Va.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice
in Richmond, Henrico County, Va.; captain in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Commonwealth attorney of the city of Richmond
from 1870 to 1889, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1881-March 3, 1889); chairman, Committee on Manufactures
(Forty-ninth Congress); presented credentials as a Member-elect to
the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to April
10, 1890, when he was succeeded by Edmund Waddill, Jr., who
contested his election; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); chairman, committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congresses); died in Richmond, Va., February 4, 1898; interment in
Hollywood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
24 X 7
Private Tutor
|
24 x 7 Tutor Availability |
|
|
Unlimited Online Tutoring |
|
|
1-on-1 Tutoring |
|
