George M. Wertz - Citizendia

George M. Wertz (July 19, 1856–November 19, 1928) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1856 ( MDCCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern

George M. Wertz was born near Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, miles east of Pittsburgh He attended the public schools, Ebensburg Academy, and the National Normal School in Lebanon, Ohio. National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon Ohio. For other places with the same name see Lebanon (disambiguation. He taught school from 1876 to 1884, and was a school director from 1886 to 1894. He was county commissioner from 1893 to 1896; sheriff of Cambria County, Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1901. Cambria County is a County located in the US state of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1908 to 1912, serving as president pro tempore in 1911 and 1912. The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Legislative branch of Pennsylvania government He organized and directed the Johnstown Daily Leader from 1911 to 1917. He was comptroller of Cambria County from 1914 to 1916.

Wertz was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924. The Sixty-eighth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government consisting of the United States Senate and He was engaged in the real estate business until his death in Johnstown. Interment in Grand View Cemetery.

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Preceded by Edward S. Brooks	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district 1923 - 1925	Succeeded by Anderson H. Walters

The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a Biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress as Edward Schroeder Brooks ( June 14, 1867 &ndash July 12, 1957) was a Republican member of the U These are tables of congressional delegations from Pennsylvania to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Pennsylvania's twentieth congressional district was a former congressional district in southwestern Pennsylvania. Anderson Howell Walters ( May 18, 1862 &ndash December 7, 1927) was a Republican member of the U

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