George Booker

George Booker

George William Booker (born December 5, 1821 in Stuart , Patrick County , Virginia , †  June 4, 1883 in Martinsville , Virginia) was an American politician . In 1870 and 1871 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Booker attended the public schools in his home country and then worked as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1846, he began to work in Patrick County in this profession. At times he was also Justice of the Peace in Henry County . Between 1856 and 1868 he served as a district judge. Politically, Booker was initially a member of the Republican Party . Between 1865 and 1867 and again from 1871 to 1873 he sat in the Virginia House of Representatives . In 1868 he was briefly Attorney General of his state. Around this time he joined the short-lived Conservative Party of Virginia .

After the re-admission of the state of Virginia to the Union, Booker was elected as its candidate in the fourth constituency of Virginia in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on January 26, 1870. By March 3, 1871, he ended the current legislative period there. After his time in the US House of Representatives, George Booker practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Martinsville on June 4, 1883.

Web links

• George Booker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Booker in the database of Find a Grave (English)