George Washington McCrary (August 29, 1835 - June 23, 1890) was a four-month Republican congressman from Iowa's 1st congressional district, a United States War Secretary in President Rutherford B. Hayes's cabinet, and a judge federal circuit.
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George Washington McCrary was born near Evansville, Indiana in 1835. Two years later, he moved with his parents to the Wisconsin Territory, to what is now Van Buren County, Iowa. He attended public school (at that time, at the age of eighteen, teaching at a public school). He studied law at Keokuk, Iowa at the future law firm of US Supreme Court Judge Samuel F. Miller, then admitted to the bar in 1856, and, at the age of twenty, began practicing in Keokuk.
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Legislative services
He was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 1857, serving until 1860. Later he became a member of the Iowa Senate between 1861 and 1865.
In 1868 he was elected Republican for the first of four consecutive terms representing Iowa's first congressional district in the US. House. In his first month in Congress, he gained national attention for refusing to support the allotment for the federal courthouse in Keokuk because the country is in debt and he can not support such courthouses in every district. In the House, he leads the Electoral Committee (in the Forty-two Congress), and the Railway and Channel Committees (in the Forty-Fifth Congress). He published a Treatise on Electoral Law of America, in 1875. At the Forty-Four Congress, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he was the author of a short-lived (but unsuccessful) bill to reorganize federal courts to allow for fair judicial review and fast. He helped create the Electoral Commission to finalize the outcome of the Presidential Election of 1876, and served on a committee that investigated the Carier Credit scandal.
Secretary of War
He served as Secretary of War under President Hayes from March 12, 1877 until December 1879, when he resigned to receive the next appointment. As Secretary, he withdrew federal troops from the remaining reconstruction government in South Carolina and Louisiana, and used federal troops in the 1877 railroad strike and the Mexican border defect. But the biggest military conflict during his watch occurred in West America, in battles with Native American tribes in Colorado, New Mexico, and elsewhere.
He was elected as a Third Class (honorary) member of the Military Order of the Loyal United States (MOLLUS). This may be due to the influence of President Hayes as a prominent member of MOLLUS. (Hayes will then serve as commander of MOLLUS.)
Circuit judge
On December 1, 1879, President Hayes nominated McCrary to become a US Circuit Court judge for the Eighth Circuit (which preceded the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit). Referring to the financial needs of his family after years of public service, he left the palace in 1884 to become general counsel for Atchison, Topeka & amp; Santa Fe train.
Early death
He died in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1890, at the age of 54 years, after suffering from a stomach tumor. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Keokuk.
References
- United States Congress. "George W. McCrary (id: M000379)". Directory of Biographies of the United States Congress .
External links
- George W. McCrary in Finding the Mausoleum
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