Background
Huff, George Franklin was born on July 16, 1842 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George and Caroline (Boyer) Huff.
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Huff, George Franklin was born on July 16, 1842 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George and Caroline (Boyer) Huff.
He attended the public schools in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and later in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
At the age of eighteen he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad car shops in Altoona. He moved to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1867 and engaged in banking in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He later became largely identified with the industrial and mining interests of western Pennsylvania.
He was a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention.
Huff was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second Congress. He was again elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1896. Huff was again elected to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses.
He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Mines and Mining during the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910.
Member Lloyd, Huff & Company, bankers, 1866-1873. Member Pennsylvania Senate, 1884-1888. Member 52d Congress (1891-1893), 21st Pennsylvania District, 54th Congress (1895-1897), Pennsylvania-at-large and 58th to 61st Congresses (1903-1911), 22d District.
Married Henrietta, daughter