George B. Churchill
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George Bosworth Churchill (October 24, 1866 – July 1, 1925) was an American politician, a Representative from Massachusetts, and an academic and editor.
Life and career
Churchill was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to Ezra and Myra Jane Churchill and grew up there. He graduated from Amherst College in 1889, where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity. He taught at Worcester High School until 1892. At this point he moved to Philadelphia and taught in the William Penn Charter School, simultaneously taking a postgraduate course at the University of Pennsylvania 1892–1894.[1]
In 1894, he went to Europe and studied in the University of Strassburg, Germany (now in France), and then attended the University of Berlin, 1895–1897. He returned to the United States and became assistant editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1897 and 1898; member of the faculty of Amherst College 1898-1925 (as professor of English Literature); moderator of Amherst 1905–1925.[1]
He was member of the State senate 1917–1919; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1917 and 1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death, in Amherst. He was buried in Wildwood Cemetery.[2]
See also
- 1917 Massachusetts legislature
- 1918 Massachusetts legislature
- 1919 Massachusetts legislature
- List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
References
External links
- George Bosworth Churchill (AC 1889) Papers in the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
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- 1866 births
- 1925 deaths
- Republican Party Massachusetts state senators
- Politicians from Worcester, Massachusetts
- Amherst College alumni
- Amherst College faculty
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- University of Strasbourg alumni
- American magazine editors
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
- 20th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court
- 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives