George A. Loud

George A. Loud

George Alvin Loud (born June 18, 1852 in Bainbridge , Geauga County , Ohio , †  November 13, 1925 in Myrtle Point , Oregon ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1917 he twice represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1856, George Loud and his parents moved to Massachusetts and ten years later to Au Sable, Michigan. He attended English High School in Boston and Professor Patterson's School in Detroit . In 1869 he graduated from Ann Arbor High School . He later got into the railroad business and became Vice President and Manager of Au Sable & Northwestern Railroad . He was also a member of Governor Hazen S. Pingree's staff for four years . During the Spanish-American War of 1898 Loud was purser on the ship "McCulloch", which was taking part in a naval battle in Manila Bay .

Politically, Loud was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Henry H. Aplin on March 4, 1903 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1913 . In the 1912 elections, he was defeated by Roy O. Woodruff of the Progressive Party .

In 1914 he managed to return to Congress, where he took over from Woodruff on March 4, 1915, and completed another legislative term until March 3, 1917. Since he had not been nominated for re-election by his party in 1916, he had to leave the US House of Representatives for good in March 1917. After his time as a congressman, George Loud worked in Au Sable in the timber industry. He died in an automobile accident in Oregon on November 13, 1925.

Web links

• George A. Loud in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George A. Loud in the database of Find a Grave (English)