George A. Neeley

George A. Neeley (1912)

George Arthur Neeley (born August 1, 1879 in Detroit , Pike County , Illinois , † January 1, 1919 in Hutchinson , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1912 and 1915 he represented the seventh constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Neeley attended the public schools in Joplin ( Missouri ) and Wellston ( Oklahoma ). He then studied until 1902 at Southwestern Baptist University in Jackson ( Tennessee ). Neeley graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence with a law degree in 1904 . In the following years he worked as a farmer, teacher and lawyer.

Politically, Neeley was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1910 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . After the death of MP Edmond H. Madison in 1911, Neeley was elected in the Seventh District of Kansas to succeed him in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . He took up this mandate on January 9, 1912. After being re-elected in the regular elections of 1912, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1915. During this time the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution were discussed and passed in Congress. It was about the nationwide introduction of income tax and the direct election of US senators. In 1914 he renounced another candidacy for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate .

After retiring from the federal capital, George Neeley did not hold any higher political offices. He died in Hutchinson on January 1, 1919 and was buried in Chandler, Oklahoma.

Web links

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

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