George Turner
United States Senator fromWashington
In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903
Preceded by	Watson C. Squire
Succeeded by	Levi Ankeny
Personal details
Born	(1850-02-25)February 25, 1850 Edina, Missouri, U.S.
Died	January 26, 1932(1932-01-26) (aged 81) Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Party	Democratic
Other political affiliations	Silver Republican,Republican
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George Turner (February 25, 1850 – January 26, 1932) was a jurist and diplomat who served one term as aUnited States senator fromWashington.

Born inEdina, Missouri, he attended the common schools and served as a military telegraph operator with theUnion Army from 1861 to 1865. He studied law, and wasadmitted to the bar in 1869, commencing practice inMobile, Alabama. From 1876 to 1880, he wasUnited States Marshal for theSouthern District of Alabama andMiddle District of Alabama, and served as Chairman of theAlabama Republican Party from 1882 to 1884. Shortly thereafter he re-located to the Territory of Washington in the Pacific Northwest where he was an associate justice of theSupreme Court of the Territory of Washington from 1885 to 1888.

While on the territorial supreme court, Turner was instrumental inrevoking women's suffrage in Washington. In the caseHarland v. Washington, he argued that women should not be able to vote because it enabled them to sit on juries, which they also should not be able to do.^[1]

He resumed the practice of law inSpokane, Washington in 1888 and was also interested in mining. He was a member of the Territorial Convention in 1889 that framed the firstWashington Constitution, thestate constitution of Washington, which had recently been admitted to the Union. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as aRepublican to the U.S. Senate in 1889 and 1893; he was elected on afusion ticket withSilver Republicans,Democrats, andPopulists support to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1903; he lost re-election^[2] and resumed the practice of law in Spokane.

In 1903, he was a member of theAlaska Boundary Tribunal and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate forgovernor in 1904. He was counsel for the United States atThe Hague in the northeastern fisheriesarbitration with Great Britain in 1910, and was appointed by PresidentWilliam H. Taft as a member of theInternational Joint Commission, created to prevent disputes regarding the use ofboundary waters between the United States and Canada from 1911 to 1914. He was counsel for the United States before the International Joint Commission from 1918 to 1924 and practiced law in Spokane. He died there in 1932 and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery.^[3]

Mount Turner on the Alaska-British Columbia border was named for him.

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