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George was born on October 29, 1870 in Boston, Massachussets, the son of George Henry Tinkham and Fannie Ann Holden.
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George was born on October 29, 1870 in Boston, Massachussets, the son of George Henry Tinkham and Fannie Ann Holden.
He was educated in Boston public and private schools, graduated from Harvard College in 1894, and spent two years at the Harvard Law School. On January 1, 1897, he began studying law in the offices of Carver and Blodgett in Boston.
He was admitted to the bar in 1899. He devoted his life to politics and foreign travel. From 1897 to 1914 Tinkham was a member of the Republican ward and city committee in Boston, and during 1897 and 1898 served on the seventy-five-man Boston Common Council.
He was appointed public administrator by Governor Roger Wolcott in 1899, was a member of the Boston Board of Aldermen and county commissioner (1901 - 1902), and served in the Massachusetts Senate (1910 - 1912).
In 1914 he was elected to Congress. Tinkham began his long career in the House of Representatives on March 4, 1915, serving fourteen consecutive terms, from the Sixty-fourth to the Seventy-seventh Congress.
Although Tinkham's congressional district included Beacon Hill and the fashionable Back Bay (where he lived), it also embraced the South End rooming houses and the "three-decker" tenements of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. His constituency was a mixture of Yankee, Jewish, black, and German, with a large proportion of Irish Catholics. Over the years few of his constituents went away from his Boston office disappointed. Whether they were selling tickets to a church whist party or needed coal, clothing, a woodenleg, spectacles, a job, or only a handout, he satisfied their needs, mostly with his own money. Following his first election to Congress, he never felt the need to campaign again; usually he spent the period before elections abroad, returning only to cast his own ballot. His hold on his congressional district was so strong that in the 1936 Democratic landslide he ran ahead of President Roosevelt by more than 4, 500 votes. Tinkham's bushy beard was the cartoonists' delight.
For most of his career in Washington he was one of only two members of Congress with beards (the other was Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, who was known as "the other Smith Brother. ")
He decided to retire from Congress when the lines of his district were altered in 1942. During his world travels over the years, Tinkham met the leading statesmen and diplomats of Europe and was entertained by viceroys, governors, and potentates in the most remote corners of Asia.
In 1929 he made the first airplane flight from Bangkok to Angkor-Wat in a Siamese army plane. In 1934 his plane crashed in Moscow, but he escaped uninjured.
He died in Cramerton, N. C. , where he had lived in retirement with his sister. He left $2 million to the Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston, the largest single grant ever given in the field of child psychology up to that time.
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He was rigidly isolationist, opposing America's entry into both the League of Nations and the World Court; and in 1939, when a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, he declined an invitation to a British embassy garden party in honor of King George and Queen Elizabeth, declaring that "the United States is not the pawn and ally of the British Empire. "
Tinkham was a strong advocate of civil rights, and in 1929, after a fight of more than a decade, he succeeded in getting an amendment added to the apportionment-census bill, by which the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment would be enforced to deny states representation in Congress to the extent that they excluded blacks from voting. He was a vigorous foe of prohibition and hurled some of his sharpest epithets against the Anti-Saloon League.
He also insisted on the separation of church and state, and his battles against the lobbying of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church received nationwide attention. In 1937 Methodist Bishop James J. Cannon, Jr. , sued him for half a million dollars on charges of libel, but lost.
During the 1930's Tinkham opposed Adolph Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal with equal enthusiasm, saying: "I come from Plymouth Rock, and I am against all dictators, by whatever name they may be known, and against unnecessary interference with the liberties of the individual and the regimentation of his life and affairs. "
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The Boston Herald said of him: "Fifty years from now Bostonians of the Tenth will be voting for him as southern mountaineers voted for Andrew Jackson half a century after he had joined the great non-political majority. "
In his spare time, he went on safaris in Kenya.
He once shot seventeen leopards in six days in British East Africa, and his apartment at the Arlington Hotel in Washington was filled with big game trophies and curios. His gifts to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ran the gamut from a ninth-century Javanese stone head to twentieth-century tapestries and vestments for Java, Indonesia, Tibet, India, and Russia.
A wealthy man, he never married.