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PORTER, Stephen Geyer, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio,
May 18, 1869; moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settled in Allegheny (now Pittsburgh),
Pa., in 1877; attended the common schools and Allegheny High School; studied medicine for two
years, after which he studied law; was admitted to the bar in December 1893 and commenced
practice in Pittsburgh; city solicitor of Allegheny 1903-1906; chairman of the Republican State
convention in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the nine succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until his death; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Pittsburgh in 1913;
appointed in 1921 to represent the House of Representatives on the advisory committee to the
Washington conference on armament limitations; represented the United States at the centennial of
Brazils independence, in 1922; member and chairman of the American delegation to the Second
International Conference on Opium, at Geneva in 1923 and 1924; chairman of the Foreign Service
Buildings Commission 1926-1930; died in Pittsburgh, Pa., on June 27, 1930; interment in Highwood
Cemetery.
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