George M. Wertz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George M. Wertz

American politician

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1856

Place of Birth: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1928

Profession: teacher, politician, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About George M. Wertz

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  • Wertz (July 19, 1856 – November 19, 1928) was a Republican politician, teacher and publisher from Pennsylvania. George Munson Wertz was born near Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
  • He attended the public schools, Ebensburg Academy, and the National Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio.
  • He taught school from 1876 to 1884, and was a school director from 1886 to 1894.
  • Wertz was a county commissioner from 1893 to 1896, and served as sheriff of Cambria County, Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1901.
  • Elected a Republican member of the Board of School Directors in 1890, George additionally served as chairman of the Republican county committee.
  • In 1893, the Senator became a three-year Cambria County commissioner, and in November 1897, Cambria County Sheriff.
  • Through the influence of his iron manufacturer father in law, Wertz assumed a post as manager of the Cambria Steel Company, where his accomplishments included securing options for control of the Manufacturer's Water Company, Somerset County.
  • He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1909 to 1913, and served as the body's President pro tempore from 1911 1913.
  • Wertz later organized and ran the Johnstown Daily Leader from 1911 to 1917, creating Cambria County's first afternoon newspaper.
  • He was an ardent farmer and fruit grower.Wertz was elected to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was defeated in the 1924 Republican primary.
  • He sold real estate until his death in Johnstown.
  • Interment in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown.
  • He belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church; the Summit Lodge Masons; the Johnstown School of Instruction – Masons; and was knighted by the Oriental Commandery, No.
  • 61, Knights Templar. His father, German-Dunkard Jacob Wertz, was the great grandson of a 1735 Palatine immigrant and rose to community prominence as a farmer, an ardent Republican, and abolitionist. His daughter Ada Olive Hager (née Wertz) attended Vassar, graduating in 1908.
  • She was one of the original graveyard suffragettes.

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