George W. McBride
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George Wycliffe McBride (March 13, 1854 - June 18, 1911) was a United States Senator from Oregon. Born near Lafayette, he attended the public schools, the preparatory department of Willamette University, and Christian College (Monmouth, Oregon). He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced; he also engaged in mercantile pursuits.
[edit] Politics
McBride was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives 1882, and served as speaker; he was secretary of State of Oregon in 1886 and 1895, and elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate on February 23, 1895, serving from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1901. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-fourth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Coast Defenses (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses). He was appointed a United States commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.
[edit] Later life
After politics he was engaged as an agent of the Western Pacific Railroad in California. In 1911 McBride died in Portland. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Masonic Cemetery, St. Helens, Oregon.
John Rogers McBride, George's brother, was a U.S. Representative from Oregon in 1863-1864.
[edit] References
| Preceded by Joseph N. Dolph |
United States Senator (Class 2) from Oregon 1895–1901 Served alongside: John H. Mitchell, Joseph Simon |
Succeeded by John H. Mitchell |
