Galusha Aaron Grow

U. S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, 1851-1863, 1894-1903

Born: August 31, 1823, Ashford (now Eastford), Windham County, Connecticut.

• Moved to Glenwood, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, in May 1834.
  
• Attended the commoN schools and Franklin Academy, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
  Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, graduate, 1844.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, 1847, and practiced law.
  
• Elected from Pennsylvania as a Free-Soil Democrat to the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth U. S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1857.
  
• Elected from Pennsylvania as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh U. S. Congresses, March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1863.
  
• Unsuccessful Republican nominee for Speaker, U. S. House of Representatives, 1857.
  
• Served as Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives in the Thirty-seventh Congress.
  
• Delegate to the Republican National Conventions, 1864, 1884, and 1892.
  
• President of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad Co., Texas, 1871-1876.
  
• Returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in lumber, oil, and soft-coal pursuits.
  
• Elected to the Fifty-third U. S. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Lilly.
  
• Re-elected to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding U. S. Congresses, serving from February 26, 1894 - March 3, 1903.
  
• Declined a renomination in 1902.

Died: March 31, 1907, Glenwood, near Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Harford Cemetery, Harford, Pennsylvania.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)