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Line 1: {{short description\|American politician}} {{other people\|George Churchill}} {{Infobox ~~Congressman~~officeholder \| image name= GeorgeBChurchill.jpg \| caption = Churchill in 1925 \| state1= [[Massachusetts]] \| district1= [[Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district\|2nd]] Line 9 ⟶ 12: \| office2 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] \| term2 = 1917–1919 \| birth_name= George Bosworth Churchill \| birth_date= ~~October~~{{birth date\|1866\|10\|24~~, 1866~~}} \| birth_place= [[Worcester, Massachusetts]] \| death_date= ~~July~~{{Death 1,date and age\|1925 ~~(aged 58)~~\|07\|01\|1866\|10\|24}} \| death_place= [[Amherst, Massachusetts]] \| spouse= Line 22 ⟶ 25: '''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== ==Life and career<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000391\|title=CHURCHILL, George Bosworth - Biographical Information\|website=bioguide.congress.gov\|access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref>== Churchill was born in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]] to Ezra 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]] ~~1892-1894~~1892–1894.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=https://www3.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/genealogy/acbiorecord/1889.html#churchill-gb\|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]], ~~1895-1897~~1895–1897. 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 ~~1905-1925~~1905–1925.<ref name=":0" /> He was member of the State senate ~~1917-1919~~1917–1919; 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 (Amherst, Massachusetts)\|Wildwood Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000391\|title=CHURCHILL, George Bosworth - Biographical Information\|website=bioguide.congress.gov\|access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref> ==See also== * [[~~Category:~~1917 Massachusetts ~~Republicans~~legislature]]▼ * [[1918 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1919 Massachusetts legislature]] [[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)]] Line 36 ⟶ 42: ==External links== {{Commons category-inline\|George B. Churchill}} {{CongBio\|C000391}} * [~~http~~https://~~asteria~~archivesspace.~~fivecolleges~~amherst.edu/~~findaids~~repositories/~~amherst~~2/~~ma6_main.html~~resources/238 George Bosworth Churchill (AC 1889) Papers,] in the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections] {{s-start}} {{s-par\|us-hs}} {{US House succession box ~~{{USRepSuccessionBox~~ \| state=Massachusetts \| district=2 Line 59 ⟶ 65: [[Category:1866 births]] [[Category:1925 deaths]] [[Category:Republican Party Massachusetts ~~State~~state ~~Senators~~senators]]▼ ~~[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts]]~~ ▲[[Category:Massachusetts State Senators]] ▲[[Category:Massachusetts Republicans]] [[Category:Politicians from Worcester, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Amherst College alumni]] Line 68 ⟶ 72: [[Category:University of Strasbourg alumni]] [[Category:American magazine editors]] [[Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts]]