Galusha Aaron GROW,国会议员,宾夕法尼亚州(1823-1907)

1823 - 1907

成长吧,迦路沙·亚伦,宾夕法尼亚州众议员;1823年8月31日出生于康涅狄格州温德姆县的阿什福德(今伊斯特福德);搬到了宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎哈纳县的格伦伍德。1834年5月;就读于萨斯奎哈纳县的普通学校和富兰克林学院;毕业于马萨诸塞州阿默斯特的阿默斯特学院。1844年;学习法律;1847年获得萨斯奎哈纳县律师资格并开始执业;作为民主党人当选为第32、33、34届国会议员,作为共和党人当选为第35、36、37届国会议员(1851年3月4日至1863年3月3日);领土委员会(第三十四和第三十六届大会)主席;1857年共和党提名议长失败; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-seventh Congress); delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1864, 1884, and 1892; president of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad Co. of Texas 1871-1876; returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in lumber, oil, and soft-coal pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Lilly; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from February 26, 1894, to March 3, 1903; chairman, Committee on Education (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); declined a renomination in 1902; died in Glenwood, near Scranton, Pa., March 31, 1907; interment in Harford Cemetery, Harford, Pa.

参考书目

罗伯特·D·伊利塞维奇。Galusha A. Grow:人民的候选人。匹兹堡:匹兹堡大学出版社,1988。

资料来源:美国国会传记目录,1771年至今