![]() George McInvale Grant Private, United States Army Member of Congress |
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Born
at Louisville, Alabama, July 11, 1897, he served as a long-time Member
of Congress from Alabama and was a legal resident of Washington, D.C. at
the time of his death on November 2, 1982 while at sea aboard the Queen
Elizabeth II.
He was buried in Section 7-A of Arlington National
Cemetery.
GRANT, George
McInvale, a Representative from Alabama; born in Louisville, Barbour County,
Ala., July 11, 1897; attended the public schools; was graduated from the
law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1922; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice at Troy, Ala.;
served as a private and aviation cadet in the aviation section of the Signal
Corps of the United States Army in 1918 and 1919; county solicitor of Pike
County, Ala., 1927-1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lister Hill; reelected
to the Seventy-sixth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served
from June 14, 1938, to January 3, 1965; unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; lobbyist;
was a resident of Washington, D.C., until the time of his death on November
4, 1982, at sea, aboard the Queen Elizabeth II; interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
On Saturday, March 27, 2004. Widow of George M. Grant, former U.S. Representive from Alabama. She is survived by two children, George M. Grant Jr. of Washington, D.C. and Alicia Longwell of Sag Harbor, New York; three grandchildren, George M. Grant, III, Julia Longwell and Oliver Longwell and one great-granddaughter, Cameron Grant. Private services will be held at Arlington National Cemetery. ![]() Photograph By M. R. Patterson, October 2002 Updated: 19 November 2000 Updated: 10 October 2002 Updated: 5 March 2003 Updated: 10 August 2003 Updated: 31 March 2004 |
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