
George Washington McCrary (29 August 1835 – 23 June 1890) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-IO 1) from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1877 (succeeding James F. Wilson and preceding Joseph Champlin Stone) and the United States Secretary of War from 12 March 1877 to 9 December 1879 (succeeding J. Donald Cameron and preceding Alexander Ramsey).
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George Washington McCrary was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1835, and his family settled in Van Buren County, Iowa in 1836. He became a lawyer in Keokuk in 1856, and he served in the State House in 1857 and from 1861 to 1865, in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1877, as Secretary of War from 1877 to 1879, and as a circuit court judge for the eighth circuit from 1879 to 1884. He practiced law in Kansas City, Missouri from 1884 to 1890, and he died in 1890.