Galusha A. Grow

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Galusha Aaron Grow
28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office July 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863
President	Abraham Lincoln
Preceded by	William Pennington
Succeeded by	Schuyler Colfax
Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's At-large, 12th & 14th districts
In office March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853 (12th) March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1863 (14th) February 26, 1894 – March 3, 1903 (AL)
Preceded by	David Wilmot Thomas M. Bibighaus William Lilly (AL) Alexander McDowell (AL)
Succeeded by	Hendrick B. Wright William H. Miller 29th: George Shiras III 30th: John Dalzell
Born	August 31, 1822 Ashford, Connecticut
Died	March 31, 1907 (aged 84) near Scranton, Pennsylvania
Political party	Democratic Republican
Alma mater	Amherst College
Profession	Law

Galusha Aaron Grow (August 31, 1822 – March 31, 1907) was a prominent U.S. politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863. He was defeated for reelection in 1862. He remained the last sitting House Speaker to be defeated until Tom Foley lost his seat in the Republican landslide of 1994.

Grow was born in Ashford, Connecticut, and educated at Franklin Academy in Glenwood, Pennsylvania and Amherst College. He then studied law in Norwich, Connecticut and Montrose, Pennsylvania.

Galusha Aaron Grow

Grow was admitted to the bar in November 1847, and practiced law in Towanda, Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1848, in Montrose, Pennsylvania from 1848 to 1852, and in Glenwood, Pennsylvania. He was elected a member of Congress as a Democrat to the 32nd, 33rd, and 34th congresses and as a Republican to the 35th, 36th, and 37th congresses.

In the session of February 5, 1858, he was involved in a fight with fellow congressman Laurence M. Keitt in the House chambers.^{[1] [2]}

Grow was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864 and 1868.

He moved to Houston, Texas in 1871, and was president of the International & Great Northern Railroad of Texas from 1871 to 1875. He then returned to Pennsylvania and the practice of law from 1875 to 1894.

Grow returned to the United States Congress as a member at-large from Pennsylvania from 1894 to 1903; was the chairman of the committee on education in the 56th Congress; and resided in Glenwood, Pennsylvania from 1903 until his death at age 84.

A biography of Galusha Grow was written by James T. DuBois.

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• Mr. Lincoln's White House -- Galusha Grow
• The Political Graveyard

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