1880s US CONGRESSMAN MANSFIELD OHIO CIVIL WAR JUDGE G.W. GEDDES AUTOGRAPH SIGNED

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GEORGE WASHINGTON GEDDES
(1824-1892)
4-TERM DEMOCRATIC PARTY US CONGRESSMAN FROM MANSFIELD, OHIO 1879-1887,
48
th
CHAIR OF THE POWERFUL HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS 1883-1885,
CIVIL WAR ERA JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT 1856-1873
&
UNSUCCESSFUL
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO IN 1871.
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HERE’S GEDDES’ SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED:
“Geo. W. Geddes
Mansfield
Ohio.”
The document measures 7” x 2½” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.
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BIOGRAPHY of the HONORABLE
GEORGE
W. GEDDES
George Washington Geddes
(July 16, 1824 – November 9, 1892) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as a
U.S. Representative
from
Ohio
for four terms from 1879 to 1887.
Early life and career
Born in
Mount Vernon, Ohio
, Geddes attended the common schools. He studied law under
Columbus Delano
.
He was
admitted to the bar
in July 1845 and practiced. He served as judge of the court of common pleas of the sixth judicial district in 1856. He was reelected in 1861.
Geddes was again elected in 1868, and served until 1873. He resumed the practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for judge of the
Supreme Court of Ohio
in 1871. He resumed the practice of law in Mansfield.
Congress
Geddes was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Forty-sixth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1887). He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims (
Forty-eighth
and
Forty-ninth
Congresses). He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1886 to the
Fiftieth
Congress. He resumed the practice of his profession.
Family life
Married Nancy Lennon of
Ashland County, Ohio
in 1848, and had three sons, Samuel, James and George. Nancy died in 1878, and Geddes married Amelia Gass, December 1880.
Geddes was a trustee of
Ohio Wesleyan University
and
Mount Union College
. He was a
Methodist
.
Death
He died in
Mansfield, Ohio
, November 9, 1892. He is interred in Mansfield Cemetery.
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