George B. Churchill
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George Bosworth Churchill (October 24, 1866-July 1, 1925) was an American politician, a Representative from Massachusetts.
He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts attended the grammar and high schools, and graduated from Amherst College in 1889, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He taught in the Worcester High School until 1892; moved to Philadelphia and taught in the William Penn Charter School, and at the same time took a postgraduate course at the University of Pennsylvania 1892-1894.
In 1894, he went to Europe and studied in the University of Strassburg, Germany, and then attended the University of Berlin, 1895-1897. He returned to the United States and became assistant editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1897 and 1898; member of the faculty of Amherst College 1898-1925; moderator of Amherst 1905-1925
He was member of the State senate 1917-1919; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1917 and 1919; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death, in Amherst. He was buried in Wildwood Cemetery.
