Galusha A. Grow

Galusha A. Grow (Official Portrait)

Galusha A. Grow

Galusha Aaron Grow (born August 31, 1823 in Ashford , Windham County , Connecticut , † March 31, 1907 in Glenwood, Scranton , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party since 1857 , 1851 to 1863 and Member of the US House of Representatives from 1894 to 1903 and also Speaker of the House of Representatives between July 1861 and March 1863 .

biography

In May 1834, the von Grow family settled in Glenwood, Susquehanna County , Pennsylvania. There he attended the Franklin Academy in addition to the Common School . After the completion of Amherst College , he studied 1844-1847 jurisprudence and was as 1847 Lawyer admitted in Susquehanna County.

He began his political career as a Democratic candidate with the election to the US House of Representatives, to which he belonged from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1863. Between 1855 and 1857 he was chairman of the Committee on Territories ( House Committee on Territories ). In 1857 he moved from the Democrats to the Republicans and was their candidate for the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives. However, he was defeated by the Democrat James Lawrence Orr . Later he was again chairman of the Committee for the Territories from 1859 to 1861 and was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on July 4, 1861, around four months after the usual start of the Congress session on March 3, after the start of the Civil War .

After leaving the House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. He then served as President of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad Co. of Texas from 1871 to 1876 before returning to Pennsylvania, where he ran a company selling lumber , petroleum and soft coal . In addition, he remained politically active and was both 1864 and 1884 and 1892 delegate of the Republican National Conventions to list the presidential candidates of his party.

After the death of William Lilly , a congressman from Pennsylvania, on December 1, 1893, Grow was re-elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives and belongs to it after several re-elections from February 26, 1894 to March 3, 1903. During this period he was also chairman of the House Committee on Education from 1895 to 1903 . In 1902 he declared that he would not stand again in the upcoming elections to the 58th US Congress .

After his death, Galusha A. Grow was buried in Harford Cemetery in Harford, Pennsylvania .

literature

• Robert D. Ilisevich: Galusha A. Grow: The People's Candidate , Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1988

Web links

• Galusha A. Grow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)