History of Fayette County Indiana United States of America

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George Washington Steele Biography

George Washington Steele, representative, was born in Fayette county, Ind., Dec. 13, 1839; son of Asbury and Mary L. Steele. He attended Ohio Wesleyan university, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. He enlisted in the 12th Indiana infantry, April 21, 1861; rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was mustered out of service, July, 1865. He was commissioned lieutenant in the 14th U.S. infantry, Feb. 23, 1866, and left the army, Feb. 1, 1876. He engaged in farming and pork packing, 1876-80. and established the first national bank of Marion, Ind., and served as its president. He was a Republican representative from the eleventh district of Indiana in the 47th-50th congresses, 1881-89; was appointed the first governor of Oklahoma Territory, 1890, and was again in the 54th-57th congresses, 1894-1903, |serving in congress as chairman of the committee on manufactures, and as a member of the committee of ways and means.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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