| 词条 | George Booker |
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|name=George William Booker |image name=GWBooker.jpg |width=200px |office1 = Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Henry County |term1 = 1872–1873 |predecessor1 = Christopher Thomas |successor1 = William Morris |term2 = 1866–1867 |predecessor2 = Samuel Mullens |successor2 = Christopher Thomas |state3=Virginia |district3=4th |term3=January 26, 1870 – March 3, 1871 |preceded3=Roger A. Pryor |succeeded3=William H.H. Stowell |party=Republican, Conservative |birth_date={{birth date|1821|12|5|mf=y}} |birth_place=Stuart, Virginia |death_date={{death date and age|1883|6|4|1821|12|5|mf=y}} |death_place=Martinsville, Virginia |resting_place = Martinsville, Virginia |spouse= |religion= |profession=Politician, Lawyer, Judge, Teacher, Justice of the Peace |footnotes= }}George William Booker (December 5, 1821 – June 4, 1883) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, teacher, judge and justice of the peace from Virginia.[1] BiographyBorn near Stuart, Virginia, Booker attended common schools as a child, taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1846, commencing practice in Patrick County, Virginia. He was elected a justice of the peace in Henry County, Virginia and was a member and presiding judge of the county court from 1856 to 1868. Booker was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1866 to 1867 and was elected Attorney General of Virginia in 1868, serving until 1869.[2] He was elected a Conservative to the United States House of Representatives in 1869, serving from 1870 to 1871 and afterwards resumed practicing law in Martinsville, Virginia. Booker died in Martinsville on June 4, 1883 and was interred there in the family cemetery. Notes1. ^{{cite web|last1=Tarter|first1=Brett|title=George William Booker (1821–1884)|url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Booker_George_William_1821-1884|publisher=Encyclopedia Virginia|accessdate=17 August 2015}} 2. ^Although the Congressional Biography lists Booker as having been elected Attorney General of Virginia, he is not recorded as having served by the Hornbook of Virginia History or the Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project. External links{{CongBio|B000627}}
| state=Virginia | district=4 | before=Roger A. Pryor(1) | after=William H. H. Stowell | years=January 26, 1870 – March 3, 1871 }}{{s-ref|Because of Virginia's secession, the House seat was vacant for almost eleven years before Booker succeeded Pryor.}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Booker, George}}{{Virginia-Representative-stub}} 16 : 1821 births|1883 deaths|Members of the Virginia House of Delegates|Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia|Virginia lawyers|Virginia state court judges|Virginia Attorneys General|Conservative Party of Virginia members of the United States House of Representatives|Virginia Republicans|19th-century American politicians|19th-century American lawyers|19th-century American judges|People from Stuart, Virginia|People from Henry County, Virginia|Burials in Virginia|People from Martinsville, Virginia |
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