George E. Outland

George Elmer Outland (October 8, 1906 – March 2, 1981) was an American educator, photographer, and politician who served two terms as a U.S. representative from California from 1943 to 1947.

Biography George Elmer Outland was born in Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, on October 8, 1906. He attended the public schools and Whittier College in California, where he received an A.B. degree in 1928. He received an M.A. from Harvard University in 1929 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1937. He also attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Early career Outland served as assistant director of boys' work at Hale House in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1928 to 1930 and director of boys' work at Denison House in Boston from 1929 to 1933. He returned to Southern California to take a position as director of boys' work at Neighborhood House in Los Angeles from 1933 to 1934. Outland was supervisor of boys' welfare for the Federal Transient Service of Southern California in 1934–35, and then director of New Haven Community College in Connecticut in 1935–36. He was an instructor at Yale University from 1935 to 1937, and served on the faculty of Santa Barbara State College from 1937 to 1942.

He was also a prolific amateur photographer and one of his favorite subjects was baseball. In 2009, McFarland & Company collected several of his photos into Baseball Visions of the Roaring Twenties: a Fan's Photographs of over 400 Players and Ballparks of the Era with text by Outland's son John.

Political career Outland was a delegate to the California State Democratic Conventions from 1942 to 1950, and was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1943–January 3, 1947). He was unsuccessful for re-election in 1946, losing to Republican Ernest K. Bramblett. Outland was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1944 and 1948, and chaired the Democratic State Policy Committee from 1948 to 1950.

In 1945, Outland was a strong supporter of then-Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace's proposed “full employment” plan, serving as one of several co-sponsors in the House.

Later career and death

After leaving Congress, Outland was a professor at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) from 1947 to 1972. He then resided in Anacortes, Washington, where he died on March 2, 1981. Outland was cremated and his ashes were interred at Pierce Cemetery in his birthplace of Santa Paula, California.

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