George Washington Hulick (June 29, 1833 – August 13, 1907) was a teacher, lawyer, soldier, judge, and a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

Ohio

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Biography

Born in Batavia, Ohio

Batavia, Ohio

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, Hulick attended the public schools and graduated from Farmer's College, near Cincinnati. He took charge of Pleasant Hill Academy and taught two years. Hulick then studied law and was admitted to the bar

Admission to the bar in the United States

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 in 1857. He subsequently commenced his law practice in Batavia.

During the Civil War

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, he enlisted as a private

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 in Company E, Twenty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry

22nd Ohio Infantry

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 on April 14, 1861. He was appointed as an orderly sergeant and afterward was elected as the captain of his company. Hulick was discharged August 16, 1861, when the regiment

Regiment

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's three-month term of enlistment expired.

He then served as the probate judge of Clermont County, Ohio

Clermont County, Ohio

Clermont County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States, just east of Cincinnati. As of 2010, the population was 197,363. Its county seat is Batavia...

, from 1864–1867, and served nine years on the board of education. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention

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 in 1868.

Presidential elector for Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes

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/Wheeler

William A. Wheeler

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 in 1876.

Hulick was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-third

53rd United States Congress

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 and Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

- House of Representatives :-Leadership:- Senate :* President: Adlai E. Stevenson * President pro tempore: William P. Frye - Majority leadership :* Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman- Minority leadership :...

Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896. He then resumed the practice of law in Batavia.

He died in Batavia on August 13, 1907, and was interred in Union Cemetery.