George Van Horn (February 5, 1850 – May 3, 1904) was a

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from

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. Born in

Otsego, New York Otsego is a town in the north-central part of Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 3,900 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Lake Otsego, which forms part of the town's eastern border. History Gideon Hawley, a mis ...

, Van Horn attended the common schools, the Cooperstown Seminary, and the New Berlin Academy. He studied law. He was

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in February 1871 and practiced in

Cooperstown, New York Cooperstown is a village in and county seat of Otsego County, New York, United States. Most of the village lies within the town of Otsego, but some of the eastern part is in the town of Middlefield. Located at the foot of Otsego Lake in the C ...

. Van Horn was elected clerk of Otsego County in 1881 and reelected in 1884. Van Horn was elected supervisor of Otsego and twice reelected. He served as member of the Democratic county committee. Van Horn was elected as a

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to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress. He engaged in banking, and was vice president of the Second National Bank of

, until his death there on May 3, 1904. He was interred in Lakewood Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Horn, George 1850 births 1904 deaths American people of Dutch descent Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) People from Otsego, New York People from Cooperstown, New York 19th-century American legislators