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George Alvin Loud (1852-1925)
Political Biography.

Congressional Biographies -- Library of Congress

LOUD, George Alvin, a Representative from Michigan;
born in Bracebridge, Ohio, June 18, 1852;
moved with his parents to Massachusettes in 1856 and to Au Sable, Mich., in 1866;
attended the English High School, Boston, Mass., and Professor Patterson's School at Detroit, Mich.;
was graduated from the Ann Arbor High School in 1869;
vice president and general manager of the Au Sable & Northwestern Railroad;
for four yeas was a colonel on the staff of Governor Pingree;
paymaster on the U.S. revenue cutter McCulloch when it participated in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection;
elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination;
engaged in the lumber business at Au Sable, Mich.;
killed in an automobile accident at Myrtle Point, Mich., November 13, 1925;
interment at Au Sable Cemetery, Oscoda, Mich.