Rhode Island
Gov. George Herbert Utter
- January 3, 1905 - January 1, 1907
- Republican
- July 24, 1854
- November 3, 1924
- New Jersey
- Amherst College
- Married Elizabeth L. Brown; four children
- Representative
About
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, GEORGE HERBERT UTTER graduated from Amherst College in 1877. He went on to work in his father’s printing business in Rhode Island and in 1893 started the Westerly Sun, a weekly newspaper. He served as an aide-de-camp to Governor Augustus Bourn from 1883 to 1885, following which he won election as a state Representative, serving for four years, as Speaker for a time. He was Secretary of State from 1891 to 1894 and won election as Lieutenant Governor in 1903 for a single one-year term. He went on to serve two terms as governor, during which he began the custom of having the Lieutenant Governor preside over the State Senate. After losing reelection in 1906, he returned to the publishing business but won a seat in Congress in 1910. He died while campaigning for a second term two years later.
Source
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
Mohr, Ralph S. Governors for Three Hundred Years (1638-1954): Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.State of Rhode Island, Graves Registration Committee, August 1954.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 13. New York: James T. White & Company.
Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.
