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Revision as of 20:55, 10 January 2023
George Deardorff McCreary | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district | |
In office 1903–1913 | |
Preceded by | Thomas S. Butler |
Succeeded by | J. Washington Logue |
Personal details | |
Born | York Springs, Pennsylvania, U.S. | September 28, 1846
Died | July 26, 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 68)
Resting place | Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
George Deardorff McCreary (September 28, 1846 – July 26, 1915) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district from 1903 to 1913.
Early life and education
McCreary was born at York Springs, Pennsylvania to John B. McCreary and Rachel Deardorff. He moved with his parents to Philadelphia and graduated from the Saunders Military Institute in 1864. He entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1864 but left in 1867 during his junior year to join the Honey Brook Coal Company of which his father was president.[1] He worked at the Whitney, McCreary & Kemmerer wholesale coal merchant company from 1870 to 1879.[1] After his father's death, he became a director in the Upper Lehigh Coal Company and the Nescopec Coal Company.[2]
Career
He was elected treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia in November 1891, and served until 1895. McCreary was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics during the Sixty-first Congress and on the Banking and Currency Commission.[2] He was not a candidate for renomination in 1912.
Personal life
On June 18, 1878, he married Kate R. Howell.[1]
McCreary supported several charities including sponsorhip of a tea service at the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission homeless shelter,[3] the Red Bank Sanatorium, the Whosoever Will Mission and the Pennsylvania Humane Society. He was treasurer of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and vice-president of the Franklin Reformatory School.[2] He was engaged in banking, and died in Philadelphia. He was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery.[4]
References
- ^ a b c MacFarland, Henry B.F. (1908). American Biographical Directories - District of Columbia - Concise Biographies of Its Prominent and Representative Contemporary Citizens, and Valuable Statistical Data 1908-1909. Washington, D.C.: The Potomac Press. p. 298. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ^ a b c The Alumni Register. Philadelphia. October 1915. pp. 97–98. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "The Times from Philadelphia". Times. 17 Sep 1891. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ "McCreary, George Deardorff 1846-1915". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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