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| Affiliation | Whig |
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| Name | George W. Summers |
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Charleston, West Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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March 04, 1804
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| Died | September 19, 1868
(64 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | SUMMERS, George William, a Representative from Virginia; born near Alexandria, Va., March 4, 1804; attended school at Charleston, Va. (now West Virginia) and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va.; was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Charleston, Va.; member of the State house of delegates 1830-1832 and 1834-1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress; elected as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1851; judge of the eighteenth judicial circuit of Virginia 1852-1858; member of the peace conference held at Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; delegate to the secession convention in 1861 at Richmond, Va.; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Charleston, W.Va., September 19, 1868; interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Putnam County, W.Va.
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