George W. Gillie

George W. Gillie (August 15, 1880 – July 3, 1963) was an American veterinarian and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1939 to 1949.

Biography

Born in Berwickshire, Scotland, Gillie moved to the United States with his parents, who settled in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1882 and in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1884. He attended the public schools, International Business College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1898, and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana from 1899 to 1901.

He graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus in 1907 as a doctor of veterinary surgery. He worked as a meat and dairy inspector of Allen County, Indiana from 1908 to 1914. Later, he began the practice of veterinary medicine in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1914, and went on to be a sheriff in Allen County 1917-1920 from 1929 to 1930, and 1935-1937.

Congress

Gillie was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1949). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Later career and death

Gillie engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as jury commissioner for the Federal courts for the northern district of Indiana. He was a resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, until his death there on July 3, 1963. He was interred in Lindenwood Cemetery.

References

• United States Congress. "George W. Gillie (id: G000207)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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