George P. Darrow

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George P. Darrow | image =George P. Darrow (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg | state = [[Pennsylvania]] | constituency = {{ushr|PA|7|C}} | term_start = January 3, 1939 | term_end = January 3, 1941 | preceded = [[Ira W. Drew]] | succeeded = [[Hugh Scott]] | constituency2 = {{ushr|PA|6|C}} (1915–1923)<br>{{ushr|PA|7|C}} (1923–1937) | term_start2 = March 4, 1915 | term_end2 = January 3, 1937 | preceded2 = [[James Washington Logue]] | succeeded2 = [[Ira W. Drew]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1859|02|04}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|06|07|1859|02|04}} | birth_place = [[Waterford, Connecticut]] | death_place = [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] | resting_place = [[Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)|Ivy Hill Cemetery]], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | alma_mater = [[Alfred University]] }} '''George Potter Darrow''' (February 4, 1859 – June 7, 1943) was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania]].

George Darrow was born in [[Waterford, Connecticut]]. He graduated from [[Alfred University]] in [[Alfred (town), New York|Alfred, New York]], in 1880. He moved to [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], in 1888 and engaged in [[banking]], in the manufacture of [[paints]], and in the [[insurance]] business. He was president of the Twenty-second Sectional School Board of Philadelphia 1906–09, and a member of the Philadelphia Common Council 1910–15.

Darrow was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1914 to the [[64th Congress]] and served until he was succeeded January 3, 1937. He had been an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936. He was elected to the [[67th Congress]] and served from January 3, 1939 to January 3, 1941. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1940.

Darrow died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Congressman Dies; Heat Prostration Victim |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w88aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oUwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4289%2C2326813 |access-date=January 12, 2019 |agency=[[United Press International|United Press]] (UP) |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |date=June 7, 1943 |page=20}}</ref> and is buried there at [[Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)|Ivy Hill Cemetery]].

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