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{{short description|American politician}}
{{other people|George Churchill}}
 
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| image name= George Bosworth ChurchillGeorgeBChurchill.jpg
| caption = Churchill in 1925
| image name=
| statestate1= [[Massachusetts]]
| districtdistrict1= [[Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district|2nd]]
| termterm1= March 244, 1925 – July 1, 1925
| precededpreceded1= [[Frederick H. Gillett]]
| succeededsucceeded1= [[Henry L. Bowles]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]]
| birth_date= October 24, 1866
| term2 = 1917–1919
| birth_name= George Bosworth Churchill
| birth_date= {{birth date|1866|10|24}}
| birth_place= [[Worcester, Massachusetts]]
| death_date= July{{Death 1,date and age|1925|07|01|1866|10|24}}
| death_place= [[Amherst, Massachusetts]]
| spouse=
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'''George Bosworth Churchill''' (October 24, 1866 – July 1, 1925) was an American politician, a Representative from Massachusetts, and an academic and editor.
 
==Life and career==
Churchill was born in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]] whereto heEzra and Myra Jane Churchill and grew up. there. He graduated from [[Amherst College]] in 1889, where he was a member of the [[Chi Phi Fraternity]]. He taught at [[Worcester High School]] until 1892. At this point he moved to [[Philadelphia]] and taught in the William Penn Charter School, simultaneously taking a postgraduate course at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] 18921892–1894.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1889.html#churchill-1894gb|title=Amherst College Biographical Record: Class of 1889|website=www3.amherst.edu|access-date=2017-08-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813090458/http://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1889.html#churchill-gb|archive-date=2016-08-13|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
In 1894, he went to Europe and studied in the [[University of Strassburg]], Germany (now in France), and then attended the [[University of Berlin]], 1895-18971895–1897. He returned to the United States and became assistant editor of the ''[[Cosmopolitan Magazine]]'' in 1897 and 1898; member of the faculty of Amherst College 1898-1925 (as professor of English Literature); moderator of Amherst 1905-19251905–1925.<ref name=":0" />
 
He was member of the State senate 1917-19191917–1919; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1917 and 1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death, in Amherst. He was buried in [[Wildwood Cemetery. The(Amherst, ArchivesMassachusetts)|Wildwood andCemetery]].<ref>{{Cite Specialweb|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000391|title=CHURCHILL, CollectionsGeorge atBosworth Amherst- CollegeBiographical holds his papersInformation|website=bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref>
 
==See also==
*{{CongBio|C000391}}▼
* [[1917 Massachusetts legislature]]
* [[1918 Massachusetts legislature]]
* [[1919 Massachusetts legislature]]
*[[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)]]
 
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|George B. Churchill}}
* [http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma6_main.html Churchill Papers, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections]▼
▲*{{CongBio|C000391}}
▲* [httphttps://asteriaarchivesspace.fivecollegesamherst.edu/findaidsrepositories/amherst2/ma6_main.htmlresources/238 George Bosworth Churchill (AC 1889) Papers,] in the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections]
 
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| state=Massachusetts
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American politician
| district=2
| DATE OF BIRTH =October 24, 1866
| district_ord=2nd
| PLACE OF BIRTH =[[Worcester, Massachusetts]]
| before=[[Frederick H. Gillett]]
| DATE OF DEATH =July 1, 1925▼
| after= [[Henry L. Bowles]]
| PLACE OF DEATH =[[Amherst, Massachusetts]]
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[[Category:1866 births]]
[[Category:1925 deaths]]
[[Category:PeopleRepublican from Worcester,Party Massachusetts state senators]]▼
[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts]]▼
[[Category:MassachusettsPoliticians Republicansfrom Worcester, Massachusetts]]
▲[[Category:People from Worcester, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Amherst College alumni]]
[[Category:Amherst College faculty]]
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[[Category:University of Strasbourg alumni]]
[[Category:American magazine editors]]
▲[[Category:MembersRepublican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts]]
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