George Washington Kipp (March 28, 1847July 24, 1911) was a Democratic member of the

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Kipp was born in

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. He engaged in the lumber business for thirty-five years. He served as a county commissioner of

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, in 1880. Kipp was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1908, as he instead chose to run for Pennsylvania State treasurer, for which he was unsuccessful. He resumed his former business pursuits until the 1910 congressional election when he was once again elected, serving in the Sixty-second Congress until his death, on

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. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery,

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The Political GraveyardGeorge W. Kipp, late a representative from Pennsylvania, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1913
1847 births 1911 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub

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