George Washington Ladd (September 28, 1818 – January 30, 1892) was a

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from

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Life history

Ladd was born on September 28, 1818 to Joseph and Sarah (Hamlin) Ladd in Augusta, Massachusetts (now in

). Ladd attended the common schools and Kents Hill Seminary. He engaged in the drug business in

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. Ladd married Marcia C. P. Ingraham on October 9, 1839. Later engaged in the lumber, commission, and wholesale grocery business in Bangor. He was also interested in railroad development. In 1868 Ladd was the Democratic Party nominee for

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. Ladd was elected as a

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candidate to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883). He was one of only 13 successful Greenback Party candidates for the 46th Congress, and one of 10 for the 47th. In both congresses he was one of only four Greenback congressmen from the northeast, the party's major strength being in the Midwest and South. Ladd served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (

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). Ladd was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the ( Forty-eighth Congress).

Death and burial

Ladd died in

, January 30, 1892. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ladd, George W. 1818 births 1892 deaths Politicians from Augusta, Maine Greenback Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine Politicians from Bangor, Maine Maine Democrats Maine Whigs Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine) 19th-century American politicians Members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine