How to Pronounce George Washington Shonk
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Apr 26, 1850 Died on 14 Aug 1900 (aged 50)
American politician
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About George Washington Shonk
- George Washington Shonk (April 26, 1850 – August 14, 1900) was a Republican member of the U.S.
- House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. George W.
- Shonk was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania where he attended the public schools.
- He studied at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1873 from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
- He studied law and in 1876 was admitted to the bar of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, after which he practiced law in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Shonk was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second Congress.
- He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892.
- He resumed the practice of his profession in Wilkes-Barre, and also became interested in coal mining in Pennsylvania.
- He died on a business trip to Washington, D.C.
- in 1900, and was buried in Shawnee Cemetery, Plymouth, Pennsylvania. George Washington Shonk was the father of New York Assemblyman Herbert B.
- Shonk (1881–1930).
