George W. McBride

Infobox Senator
name= George W. McBride

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office= United States Senator from Oregon
party= Republican
term= March 4 1895 – March 3 1901
preceded= Joseph N. Dolph
succeeded= John H. Mitchell
office2 = Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives
term_start2 = 1882
term_end2 = 1884
predecessor2 = Zenas Ferry Moody
successor2 = W. P. Keady
constituency2 = Columbia County
date of birth= March 13 1854
place of birth= Lafayette, Oregon
date of death= death date and age|1911|06|18|1854|03|13
place of death= Portland, Oregon
spouse= Laura W. Walter
profession= merchant
religion=
footnotes=:"For the baseball player, see George McBride"

George Wycliffe McBride (March 13, 1854 - June 18, 1911) was a United States Senator from Oregon. Born near Lafayette, he attended the public schools, the preparatory department of Willamette University, and Christian College (Monmouth, Oregon). He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced; he also engaged in mercantile pursuits.

Politics

McBride was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives 1882, and served as speaker; he served as Oregon Secretary of State in 1886 and again in 1895, and was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate on February 23, 1895, serving from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1901. McBride was the first native Oregonian to serve in Congress.Corning, Howard M. "Dictionary of Oregon History". Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900. He was chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-fourth Congress), though the committee may never have met during his tenure; and a member of the Committee on Coast Defenses (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses). He was appointed a United States commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.

Later life

After politics he was engaged as an agent of the Western Pacific Railroad in California. On May 24 1902, in New York City he married Laura W. Walter with whom he had one daughter. In 1911 McBride died in Portland. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Masonic Cemetery, St. Helens, Oregon.

John Rogers McBride, George's brother, was a U.S. Representative from Oregon in 1863-1864. The other brother, Thomas A. McBride served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1909 to 1930.

References

*CongBio|M000300