| LC control no. | n 95008768 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McLean, George Payne, 1857-1932 |
| Variant(s) | McLean, George P., 1857-1932 |
| See also | Connecticut. Governor (1901-1903 : McLean) |
| Birth date | 1857-10-07 |
| Death date | 1932-06-06 |
| Place of birth | Simsbury (Conn.) |
| Place of death | Simsbury (Conn.) |
| Affiliation | Connecticut. General Assembly. House of Representatives Connecticut. General Assembly. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States. Congress. Senate |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Public prosecutors Governors |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Simsbury Historical Society for Literary productions and memoirs, 1900-[ongoing] (George Payne McLean; Simsbury, Conn.) WwWA: v. 1, 1897-1942 (McLean, George Payne; 1857-1932; U.S. senator, governor of Conn., lawyer; Republican) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, June 3, 2014 (McLean, George Payne, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Simsbury, Hartford County, Conn., October 7, 1857; attended the common schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.; member, State house of representatives 1883-1884; member of the commission to revise the Connecticut statutes 1885; member, State senate 1886-1888; United States district attorney for Connecticut 1892-1896; resumed the practice of law in Hartford; Governor of Connecticut 1901-1903; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1911; reelected in 1916 and again in 1922 and served from March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1929; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1928; chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Sixty-second and Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Banking and Currency (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Manufactures (Seventieth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Hartford, Conn.; died in Simsbury, Conn., June 6, 1932; interment in Simsbury Cemetery) A Connecticut Yankee goes to Washington, 2023: CIP t.p. (George P. McLean, birdman of the Senate) |
| Associated language | eng |
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