George Chester Robinson WAGONER, Congress, MO (1863-1946)

1863-1946

WAGONER, George Chester Robinson, a Representative from Missouri; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 3, 1863; attended the public schools and Beaumont Hospital Medical College, St. Louis, Mo.; president of the Wagoner Undertaking Co. and secretary and treasurer of the H.H. Wagoner Realty Co., St. Louis, Mo.; successfully contested as a Republican the election of James J. Butler to the Fifty-seventh Congress (February 26, 1903-March 3, 1903); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; resumed business activities; died in St. Louis, Mo., April 27, 1946; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present