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Jan 01, 1859 Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 24 Mar 1942 (aged 83)
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- George Shiras III (January 1, 1859 – March 24, 1942) was a U.S.
- Representative from the state of Pennsylvania and nature photographer who pioneered the use of nighttime flash photography. George Shiras (son of George Shiras, Jr.) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
- He attended the public schools and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
- He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1881 and from the law department of Yale College in 1883.
- He was admitted to the Connecticut and Pennsylvania bars in 1883 and commenced the practice of his profession in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1889 and 1890.
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1890. Shiras was elected as an Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
- He did not seek renomination in 1904.
