George Washington Fleeger (March 13, 1839 – June 25, 1904) was a

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member of the

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from

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Biography

George W. Fleeger was born in Concord Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and West Sunbury Academy. He was enlisted in the

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on June 10, 1861, as a private in Company C,

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, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in June 1862. He was brevetted captain, and served until March 13, 1865. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Butler. Fleeger served as a member of the

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in 1871 and 1872. He was the chairman of the Republican State central committee, and a delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1882 and 1890. Fleeger was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in

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, and died there in 1904. Interment in the North Cemetery.

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