George T.Oliver, Republican, Senator  1900-1917

 George T. Oliver was born in 1848, in County Tyrone, Ireland, when his Pittsburgh-based parents were living abroad. He practiced law in Pittsburgh from 1871 to 1881, and served as president of the Pittsburgh Central Board of Education from 1881 until 1884. Beginning in 1900, he became the publisher of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. In 1904, he was offered appointment to the United States Senate to fill Matthew Quay’s seat, but he declined. He was then elected to the  Senate in his own right in 1909 to fill the Philander C. Knox’s vacant seat. Oliver was reelected in 1911 and served from March 17, 1909, to March 3, 1917. After retiring from public life, Oliver lived in Pittsburgh, dying there in 1919.

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