George P. McLean
George Payne McLean | |
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Connecticut Senate | |
| In office 1886 1889-1891 | |
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| Born | October 7, 1857 Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Died | June 6, 1932 (aged 74) Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Juliette Goodrich |
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George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a
Biography
McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary (Payne) McLean. His sister Sarah Pratt McLean Greene became a novelist. McLean attended the common schools in Simsbury. At the age of fifteen he entered Hartford High School, traveling to school each day on the train. He graduated in 1876. Upon graduation he took a job as a reporter for the Hartford Evening Post. Leaving the paper in 1879, he entered the Hartford law office of Henry C. Robinson and trained as a lawyer in that office. He remained there eight years, combining his apprenticeship with Robinson with a part-time job in financial management at Trinity College in Hartford. During this time he passed the law exam and was admitted to the bar.[1]
A confirmed bachelor until he was forty-nine, he married his longtime Simsbury sweetheart Juliette Goodrich on April 10, 1907. She was forty-two. They had no children.[2] He died on June 6, 1932, and she on October 21, 1950. They are buried in Simsbury Cemetery.[3]
Career
McLean was a member of the
Elected the
McLean was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 1910 and served from 1911 to 1929. He was reelected in 1916 and 1922.[6]
While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Sixty-second and Sixty-fifth Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Banking and Currency (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses) and the Committee on Manufactures (Seventieth Congress). He declined to run for reelection in 1928.[7]
Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Probably McLean's most lasting legislative achievement was the
Death and legacy
McLean resumed the practice of law in Hartford, and died of heart disease in Simsbury, on June 6, 1932 (age 74 years, 243 days).[9] He is interred at Simsbury Cemetery.
His will established the non-profit McLean Fund, which has since operated two enterprises in his home town of Simsbury - a senior living community and elder-care services provider and a private game refuge. The McLean Game Refuge consists of over 4,200 acres (17 km2) of land in Simsbury and Granby and is open to the public; part of it has been designated a National Natural Landmark. The McLean senior living organization consists of an independent living community and a multi-faceted elder-care service provider that offers services ranging from visiting nurses and adult day care to assisted living, long-term care, hospice, post surgical acute, inpatient physical rehabilitation and outpatient physical rehabilitation.
References
- ^ The Senator from Simsbury: George P. McLean by Ellsworth S. Grant (Ellsworth Grant and the McLean Fund, 2001)
- ^ Who's Who in America, Vol. VI, 1910-1911, Albert Nelson Marquis, ed. (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1910) p. 1242
- ^ Simsbury Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions: Simsbury Connecticut, 1688-2000, by Joyce A. Cahill (Joyce A. Cahill and the Simsbury Free Library, 2001)
- ^ "George P. McLean". Connecticut State Library. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ "George P. McLean". National Governors Association. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ "George P. McLean". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ "George P. McLean". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ "Exploring the Foundation - Wildfowl Magazine, Chris Madson, 2010". Archived from the original on January 26, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
- ^ "George P. McLean". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
External links
- United States Congress. "George P. McLean (id: M000547)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
- Govtrack US Congress
- Connecticut State Library
- National Governors Association
- George P. McLean at Find a Grave
- George McLean Biography at RIT Press
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