George W. Dunlap

George W. Dunlap

George Washington Dunlap (born February 22, 1813 in Lexington , Kentucky , †  June 6, 1880 in Lancaster , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Dunlap received a good primary education. Until 1834 he studied at Transylvania University in Lexington. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Lancaster in this profession. Then he worked from 1843 for the district court. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1853 he became a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives .

In the congressional election of 1860 , Dunlap was elected as a unionist in the sixth constituency of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Green Adams on March 4, 1861 . By March 3, 1863, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress that was shaped by the events of the civil war . In 1861 he was a member of a meeting of delegates from the border states between the north and the south. During his two-year tenure in the US House of Representatives, Dunlap chaired the Department of Navy Expenditures Committee. In 1862 he was one of the Congressional Prosecutors in the impeachment trial of Federal Judge West Hughes Humphreys .

After serving in Congress, George Dunlap returned to practice as a lawyer. He died on June 6, 1880 in Lancaster and was buried there.

Web links

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

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