George Washington Murray (22 September 1853-21 April 1926) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SC 7) from 4 March 1893 to 3 March 1895 (succeeding William Elliott and preceding J. William Stokes) and from SC-1 from 4 June 1896 to 3 March 1897 (interrupting Elliott's terms).
Biography[]
George Washington Murray was born in Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina in 1853 (a distant relative of Jim Clyburn), and he was orphaned during the American Civil War. He worked as a teacher from 1871 to 1874 before becoming a Republican organizer and politician, initially serving as Chairman of the Sumter County GOP before serving as a federal inspector of customs at the port of Charleston from 1890 to 1892 and serving in the US House of Representatives from 1893 to 1895 and from 1896 to 1897. In 1905, he was sentenced to three years of hard labor on trumped-up forgery charges, so he moved to Chicago and became an ally of Mayor William Hale Thompson and helped him procure the black vote. He died in 1926.