George P. McLean
| George Payne McLean | |
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United States Senator from Connecticut |
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In office March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1929 |
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| Preceded by | Morgan G. Bulkeley |
| Succeeded by | Frederic C. Walcott |
| 59th Governor of Connecticut | |
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In office January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903 |
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| Lieutenant | Edwin O. Keeler |
| Preceded by | George E. Lounsbury |
| Succeeded by | Abiram Chamberlain |
| Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives | |
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In office 1883–1884 |
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| Member of the Connecticut Senate | |
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In office 1886 1889-1891 |
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October 7, 1857 Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Died | June 6, 1932 (aged 74) Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Political party | Republican |
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Leah Demarest McLean Isabella (Bishop) McClintock McLean |
Leah Demarest McLean
George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States Senator from Connecticut.
McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary (Payne) McLean. His sister Sarah Pratt McLean Greene became a novelist. McLean attended the common schools in Simsbury. At the age of fifteen he entered Hartford High School, traveling to school each day on the train. He graduated in 1876. Upon graduation he took a job as a reporter for the Hartford Evening Post. Leaving the paper in 1879, he entered the Hartford law office of Henry C. Robinson and trained as a lawyer in that office. He remained there eight years, combining his apprenticeship with Robinson with a part-time job in financial management at Trinity College in Hartford. During this time he passed the law exam and was admitted to the bar.
A confirmed bachelor until he was forty-nine, he married his longtime Simsbury sweetheart Juliette Goodrich on April 10, 1907. She was forty-two. They had no children. He died on June 6, 1932 and she on October 21, 1950. They are buried in Simsbury Cemetery.
McLean was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1883 and 1884, He served as clerk of the State Board of Pardons from 1884 to 1901; and a member of the commission to revise the Connecticut statutes, 1885. He was a member of the state senate in 1886. He was a member of the Connecticut State Senate from 1889 to 1891. In 1890, he was elected Connecticut's Secretary of State, but never took office because of the deadlocked Legislature of 1891-1893. As a result, McLean was able to accept President Benjamin Harrison's appointment in 1892 to be United States attorney for his home state from 1892 to 1896. He resumed the practice of law in Hartford
Elected the 59th Governor of Connecticut in 1901 and 1902, McLean served beginning on January 9, 1901. During his tenure, the governor's administrative staff was restructured, as well the state militia; and a tax commission office was founded. McLean did not seek reelection due to ill health, and left the governor's office on January 7, 1903.
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