George F. Huff | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania | |
| In office March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1911 | |
| Preceded by | John Dalzell |
| Succeeded by | Curtis H. Gregg |
| Constituency | 22nd district |
| In office March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897 | |
| Preceded by | See below |
| Succeeded by | See below |
| Constituency | at-large |
| In office March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel Alfred Craig |
| Succeeded by | Daniel B. Heiner |
| Constituency | 21st district |
| Member of thePennsylvania State Senate | |
| In office 1884–1888 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1842-07-16)July 16, 1842 |
| Died | April 18, 1912(1912-04-18) (aged 69) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Henrietta Burrell (m. 1871) |
George Franklin Huff (July 16, 1842 – April 18, 1912) was aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
George F. Huff was born inNorristown, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools inMiddletown, Pennsylvania,[1] and later inAltoona, Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen he worked for thePennsylvania Railroad car shops in Altoona.
He moved toWestmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1867 and engaged inbanking inGreensburg, Pennsylvania. He later became largely identified with theindustrial andmining interests of western Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the1880 Republican National Convention. He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate from 1884 to 1888.
Huff was elected as a Republican to theFifty-second Congress. He was again elected to theFifty-fourth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in1896.
Huff was again elected to theFifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of theUnited States House Committee on Mines and Mining during theSixtieth andSixty-first Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in1910.
On March 16, 1871, Huff married the former Henrietta Burrell, a daughter of Jeremiah M. Burrell, President Judge of the Tenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of eight children.
Along with sixty-odd wealthy Western Pennsylvanians includingAndrew Carnegie,Andrew Mellon andHenry Clay Frick, Huff was a member of the eliteSouth Fork Fishing and Hunting Club whose earthen dam atLake Conemaugh failed on May 31, 1889, causing theJohnstown Flood.
He died inWashington, D.C., in 1912, aged 69. He was interred in St. Clair Cemetery inGreensburg, Pennsylvania.
Huff'sDupont Circle mansion, designed byHorace Trumbauer andJulian Abele and built in 1906, was sold by his widow in 1913 to theArgentine Ministry of Foreign Relations, and has since housed theEmbassy of Argentina.[2]
moved to Norristown, and from there to Middletown, in Dauphin County, and five years later removed to Altoona, Pennsylvania. ... When four years of age he accompanied his parents to Middletown, where he attended the public schools until 1851, when his parents moved to Altoona.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 21st congressional district 1891–1893 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's at-large congressional district 1895–1897 alongside: Galusha A. Grow | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 22nd congressional district 1903–1911 | Succeeded by |
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