FOSTER, GEORGE PETER, a Representative from Illinois;
born in Dover, Morris County, N.J., April 3, 1858;
moved to Chicago in 1867;
attended the public schools and the University of Chicago;
was graduated from Union College of Law at Chicago in 1882;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.;
justice of the peace for the town of South Chicago 1891-1899;
acting police magistrate of the principal police court of the city 1893-1899;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904;
resumed the practice of law;
assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, Ill., 1912-1922;
retired from active pursuits in 1928 and moved to Wheaton, Ill., where he died November 11, 1928;
interment in Calvary Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
