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Senate Years of Service: 1947-1959 Party: Republican
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MALONE, George Wilson, a Senator from Nevada; born in Fredonia, Wilson County, Kans., August 7, 1890;
attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1917; engaged as a
civil and hydraulic engineer at Reno, Nev., in 1914; during the First World War enlisted as a private in
the Field Artillery; promoted to sergeant, and became a lieutenant and regimental intelligence officer,
serving in England and France 1917-1919; State engineer of Nevada 1927-1935; special consultant
to the United States Senate Military Affairs subcommittee on strategic and critical minerals and
materials and for examination of military establishments during the Second World War; elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1946; reelected in 1952 and served from January 3, 1947,
to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 and for election to the United States
House of Representatives in 1960; consulting engineer in Washington, D.C., until his death there on
May 19, 1961; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyMalone, George W. Mainline. New
Canaan, CT: Long House, 1958.
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