George W. McBride
For the baseball player, see George McBrideGeorge Wycliffe McBride (
March 13,
1854 -
June 18,
1911) was a
United States Senator from
Oregon. Born near
Lafayette, he attended the public schools, the preparatory department of
Willamette University, and
Christian College (
Monmouth, Oregon). He studied law and was admitted to the
bar, but never practiced; he also engaged in mercantile pursuits.
McBride was a member of the
Oregon House of Representatives 1882, and served as
speaker; he was
secretary of State of Oregon in 1886 and 1895, and elected as a
Republican to the U.S. Senate on
February 23,
1895, serving from
March 4,
1895, to
March 3,
1901]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1900. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Fifty-fourth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Coast Defenses (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses). He was appointed a United States commissioner to the [[St. Louis Exposition in 1904, engaged as an agent of the
Western Pacific Railroad in California, and in 1911 died in
Portland. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred in
Masonic Cemetery,
St. Helens, Oregon.
John Rogers McBride, George's brother, was a
U.S. Representative from Oregon in 1863-1864.
