| LC control no. | no 00082597 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shiras, George, 1859-1942 |
| Variant(s) | Shiras, George, III, 1859-1942 |
| Birth date | 1959-01-01 |
| Death date | 1942-03-24 |
| Place of birth | Allegheny (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Marquette (Mich.) |
| Affiliation | Yale Law School Cornell University |
| Found in | Justice George Shiras, Jr. of Pittsburgh, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1892-1903, 1953: t.p. (George Shiras, 3rd) p. xi (d. 1942; b. 1859 in Allegheny, PA, graduated from Cornell Univ., 1881, from Yale Law School, 1883) Smithsonian Inst. Archives website, 11/4/2003 (George Shiras III (1859-1942) was a US Congressman, conservationist, and pioneer wildlife photographer) Biographical Directory of the United States Senate, viewed 01 April 2019: (SHIRAS, George, III, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Allegheny, Pa., January 1, 1859; attended the public schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1881 and from the law department of Yale College in 1883; was admitted to the Connecticut and Pennsylvania bars in 1883 and commenced the practice of his profession in Pittsburgh, Pa.; member of the State house of representatives in 1889 and 1890; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1890; elected as an Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); did not seek renomination in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; engaged in biological research and wildlife photography; died in Marquette, Mich., March 24, 1942) <http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000370> |
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