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  Foss, George Edmund
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NameGeorge Edmund Foss
Address47 Gordon Terrace
Chicago, Illinois , United States
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Born July 02, 1863
DiedMarch 15, 1936 (72 years)
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Info (brother of Eugene Noble Foss), a Representative from Illinois; born in West Berkshire, Franklin County, Vt., July 2, 1863; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1885; attended Columbia Law School and the School of Political Science in New York City; was graduated from Union College of Law at Chicago, Ill., in 1889; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Chicago; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1913); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifty-sixth through Sixty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912; elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for renomination in 1918, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; died in Chicago, Ill., March 15, 1936; interment in Graceland Cemetery.

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  11/03/1914 IL District 10 Won 38.78% (+10.62%)
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  11/05/1912 IL District 10 Lost 29.03% (-6.20%)
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  11/03/1908 IL - District 10 Won 62.01% (+32.45%)
  08/08/1908 IL US Senate - R Primary Lost 30.61% (-12.68%)
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  11/08/1904 IL District 10 Won 66.17% (+41.16%)
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  11/06/1900 IL - District 07 Won 57.51% (+18.23%)
  11/08/1898 IL District 7 Won 60.79% (+24.26%)
  11/03/1896 IL District 7 Won 65.08% (+31.82%)
  11/03/1894 IL District 7 Won 59.26% (+32.70%)
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