George W. Croft

George W. Croft

George William Croft (born December 20, 1846 in Newberry County , South Carolina , †  March 10, 1904 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1904 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Croft attended public schools in Greenville . During the Civil War , he entered the South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston in 1863 . In 1864, like all cadets at the Academy, he was incorporated into the Confederate Army . He remained in the military until the end of the war in April 1865. In 1866 and 1867, Croft continued his education with a study at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1869, he began to practice in his new profession. He later became president of his state's bar association.

Croft was a member of the Democratic Party . In the years 1882 and 1883 and again from 1901 to 1902 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . In the meantime he was also a member of the State Senate . In 1902 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of South Carolina, where he succeeded W. Jasper Talbert on March 4, 1903 . Croft could not finish his term of office in Congress, which ran until March 3, 1905 , because he died on March 10, 1904. His term of office was ended after a by-election by his son Theodore (1874-1920).

Web links

• George W. Croft in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George W. Croft in the database of Find a Grave (English)