George McGill

For the Arkansas legislator, see George McGill (Arkansas politician)
George McGill
United States Senator
from Kansas
In office
December 1, 1930  January 3, 1939
Preceded by Henry J. Allen
Succeeded by Clyde M. Reed
Personal details
Born (1879-02-12)February 12, 1879
Russell, Iowa
Died May 14, 1963(1963-05-14) (aged 84)
Wichita, Kansas
Political party Democratic

George S. McGill (February 12, 1879  May 14, 1963) was an American politician from Kansas.

Born in Lucas County, Iowa, he moved with his parents to Kansas when he was 5. He graduated from Central Normal College in Great Bend, Kansas at the turn of the century and was admitted to the state bar two years later. McGill then moved to Wichita, Kansas where he was made deputy county attorney and then county attorney for Sedgwick County, Kansas. He was elected to the Senate on November 4, 1930 to replace Senator Charles Curtis, who resigned to become Vice President of the United States (former governor Henry J. Allen was appointed to fill the seat until a successor was elected). In the Senate, he was the chairman of the committee on pensions and was particularly involved in the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He was re-elected in 1932 but lost re-election bids in 1938, 1942, 1948 and 1954. McGill was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as a member of the U.S. Tariff Commission, a post he held until 1954. He died in St. Francis Hospital in Wichita in 1963 and was buried in Pawnee Rock Cemetery, in Pawnee Rock, Kansas.

Kansas has elected only three Democratic US Senators; McGill is the only one of the three both to be elected by popular vote (as opposed to election by the state legislature) and to serve more than one 6-year term (the others being John Martin and William Thompson). McGill is the last Democrat to serve in the US Senate from Kansas; the Sunflower State has been exclusively represented in the Senate by the GOP since 1939, the longest such active streak for either party in the country.

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United States Senate
Preceded by
Henry Justin Allen
United States Senator (Class 3) from Kansas
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Succeeded by
Clyde M. Reed
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