Newell A. George

Newell A. George (1959)

Newell Adolphus George (born September 24, 1904 in Kansas City , Missouri , †  October 22, 1992 in Kansas City , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1961 he represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Newell George attended Kansas City, Kansas public schools, the Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, and Park College in Parkville . He then went to law school at the University of Kansas City and National University in Washington, DC . He was admitted to the bar in Washington in 1935 and in Kansas in 1941. He then started to work in his new profession in Kansas City (Kansas).

Politically, George was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1933 and 1934 he was a member of the staff of US Senator George McGill . From 1941 to 1945 he was a lawyer for the Office of Employment Security . At the same time he was a legal advisor to the War Manpower Commission . Between 1947 and 1953, George worked for the federal government's Social Security. He was then from 1953 to 1958 employee of the District Attorney in Wyandotte County in Kansas. In 1960 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention , where John F. Kennedy was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

In the 1958 congressional elections, George was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second district of Kansas. There he took over from Errett P. Scrivner of the Republican Party on January 3, 1959 . But since he was not confirmed in 1960, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1961 . Between 1961 and 1968, George was a federal attorney for the Kansas District. He spent the rest of his life in Kansas City (Kansas), where he died in 1992.

Web links

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