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watson c. squire levi ankeny 26 january 1932 edina , missouri spokane , washington united states senator democratic march 4 , 1903 25 february 1850 march 4 , 1897 george turner -lrb- u.s. politician -rrb- . jpg george turner -lrb- u.s. politician -rrb-
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george turner -lrb- u.s. politician -rrb-

george turner -lrb- february 25 , 1850january 26 , 1932 -rrb- was a united states senator from washington .
born in edina , missouri , he attended the common schools and served as a military telegraph operator with the union army from 1861 to 1865 .
he studied law , and was admitted to the bar in 1869 , commencing practice in mobile , alabama .
from 1876 to 1880 , he was united states marshal for the southern district of alabama and middle district of alabama , and was an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of washington from 1885 to 1888 .
he resumed the practice of law in spokane , washington in 1888 and was also interested in mining .
he was a member of the territorial convention in 1889 that framed the first washington constitution , the state constitution of washington , which had recently been admitted to the union .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for election as a republican to the u.s. senate in 1889 and 1893 ; he was elected on a fusion ticket with silver republicans , democrats , and populists support to the u.s. senate and served from march 4 , 1897 , to march 4 , 1903 ; he was not a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law in spokane .
in 1903 , he was a member of the alaska boundary tribunal and was an unsuccessful democratic candidate for governor in 1904 .
he was counsel for the united states at the hague in the northeastern fisheries arbitration with great britain in 1910 , and was appointed by president william h. taft as a member of the international joint commission , created to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters between the united states and canada from 1911 to 1914 .
he was counsel for the united states before the international joint commission from 1918 to 1924 and practiced law in spokane .
he died there in 1932 and is interred at greenwood cemetery .
