Stephen Geyer Porter

Steven Geyer Porter (May 18, 1869–June 27, 1930) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Stephen G. Porter was born near Salem, Ohio. In 1877, he moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh). He attended Allegheny High School and studied medicine for two years, after which he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in December 1893 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh. He was city solicitor of Allegheny from 1903 to 1906. He was chairman of the Republican State convention in 1912. Porter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served until his death. He was the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of Pittsburgh in 1913. He was appointed in 1921 to represent the United States House of Representatives on the advisory committee to the Washington conference on armament limitations, and he represented the United States at the centennial of Brazil’s independence, in 1922. He was a member and chairman of the American delegation to the Second International Conference on Opium, at Geneva in 1923 and 1924. He was also chairman of the Foreign Service Buildings Commission from 1926 to 1930. He died in Pittsburgh. Interment in Highwood Cemetery.

Sources

• Stephen G. Porter at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard