Guy L. Shaw
Guy L. Shaw | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 20th district | |
In office March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923 | |
Preceded by | Henry Thomas Rainey |
Succeeded by | Henry Thomas Rainey |
Personal details | |
Born | Summer Hill, Illinois, U.S. | May 16, 1881
Died | May 19, 1950 Normal, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 69)
Political party | Republican |
Guy Loren Shaw (May 16, 1881 – May 19, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born on a farm near Summer Hill, Illinois, Shaw attended the public schools and the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and the development of overflow lands along the Illinois River. He served as delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1920.
Shaw was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress. He engaged in the real estate business in Beardstown, Illinois, and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. He moved to Normal, McLean County, Illinois, and continued agricultural pursuits, farm management, and the real estate business. He died in Normal, Illinois, May 19, 1950. He was interred in Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois.
References
[edit]- United States Congress. "Guy L. Shaw (id: S000306)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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- 1881 births
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- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
- 20th-century American legislators
- People from Beardstown, Illinois
- People from Pike County, Illinois
- University of Illinois College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences alumni
- Businesspeople from Illinois
- Farmers from Illinois
- 20th-century American businesspeople