George Shiras III

George Shiras III (January 1, 1859 – March 24, 1942) was a

George Shiras (son of George Shiras Jr.) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1881 and from the law department of Yale College in 1883.

He was admitted to the

He served as a member of the

Shiras was elected as an Independent Republican to the

He passed away in Marquette, Michigan on the March 24, 1942, and was interred at the Park Cemetery.

Photography

Both during and after his time in Congress, Shiras participated in biological research and

On February 14, 1906, Shiras was elected Associate Member of the Boone and Crockett Club, a conservation organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1887.^[2] He was credited with the discovery of a moose subspecies in Yellowstone National Park, which was named Alces alces shirasi, Shiras's Moose.^[3]

In 1935, Shiras published Hunting Wild Life with Camera and Flashlight: a Record of Sixty Five years' Visits to the Woods and Waters of North America, a two-volume set of over 960 of his wildlife photographs, including some of the earliest 'flash' photography.

Collections of his papers are held at the National Library of Medicine^[4] and the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives.^[5]

References

Sources

• United States Congress. "George Shiras III (id: S000370)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard
• "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952," database, FamilySearch

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by At-large: Galusha A. Grow, Robert H. Foerderer	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 29th congressional district 1903–1905	Succeeded by William H. Graham

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