George Douglas Perkins (February 29 1840 – February 3 1914) was a longtime newspaper editor Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa’s 11th congressional district in the northwestern portion of the state and an unsuccessful candidate for his party’s nomination as governor.In 1860 he established the Cedar Falls Gazette in Cedar Falls Iowa. On August 12 1862 after the outbreak of the American Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company B of the 31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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