Biography

07/16/1842 - 04/18/1912

George Franklin Huff (R39) Westmoreland County 1885-1888

Early Life: 

George Franklin Huff, born July 16, 1842; Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; son of George and Caroline Boyer-Huff; attended public schools , Middletown, Altoona; worked, Altoona Pennsylvania Railroad car shops; moved, Westmoreland County, 1867; engaged, banking, Greensburg, Pennsylvania; engaged, industrial and mining interests, western Pennsylvania; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1880; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1884-1888; elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Fifty-second Congress, 1891- 1893; elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Fifty-fourth Congress, 1895-1897, was not a candidate for renomination, 1896; elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-nineth, Sixtieth, Sixtieth-first Congresses, 1903-1911, not a candidate for renomination, 1910; married, Henrietta Burrell, children, Anna Burrell Huff, George Franklin Huff, Henry Burrell Huff, Mortimer Burrell Huff, Lloyd Burrell Huff, Julian Burrell Huff, Carolyn Burrell Huff Cobb, Burrell Richardson Huff; died, April 18, 1912, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia; interment Saint Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1880. 

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 39th district, Westmoreland County, 1885-1888; committee assignments, Corporations (Chairman), Finance, Mines and Mining. 

Continued Government Service/National Politics: 

Elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Fifty-second Congress, 1891-1893.  

Elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Fifty-fourth Congress, 1895-1897, not a candidate for renomination, 1896. 

Elected, Republican, House of Representatives, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st Congresses, 1903-1911; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining, Sixtieth, Sixty-first Congresses; not a candidate for renomination, 1910. 

Legacy:  

Wife, Henrietta Burrell, daughter, Jeremiah M. Burrell, President Judge of the Tenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, United States District Judge, Territory of Kansas. 

His Dupont Circle mansion, located at 1600 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C designed by Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele and built in 1906, was sold by his widow in 1913 to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations, and has since housed the Embassy of Argentina. The Argentine Government purchased the building on February 20, 1913, from Mrs. Henrietta Huff, who decided to sell the house after her husband’s death in 1912.  

Cited:  

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members H". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1887) Cochran, T.B., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 651, 654-656, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 623.

Embassy of Argentina, Washington, D.C. (wikidocumentaries-demo.wmcloud.org)

The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hudspeth to Hughbanks

George Franklin Huff (1842-1912) - Find a Grave Memorial