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Senate Resolution—Inducting George W.Cassidy into the Senate Hall of Fame.

Whereas, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada has

established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected by

leadership from those past Senators who have served with distinction and

who have made exemplary contributions to the State of Nevada; and

Whereas, George W. Cassidy, who studied law but chose to make a

living in the newspaper business, was the proprietor and editor of the

Eureka Sentinel newspaper at the time of his first election to the Nevada

Senate in 1872, served the people of the State of Nevada with intelligence,

vision and compassion as a State Senator from 1873 through 1880 and as a

member of the United States House of Representatives from 1881 through

1885; and

Whereas, Senator Cassidy, a leading figure in the Senate during

Nevada’s prosperous years of the 1870s, was elected President pro

Tempore for the 1877 session when the Senate was at its maximum of 25

members, and sponsored bills to create Eureka County, construct its

beautiful courthouse, provide for the government of unincorporated towns,

allocate monetary relief to the victims of the devastating fire in Reno in

1879, prohibit involuntary servitude of the Chinese and prevent railroad

rate and fare discrimination; and

Whereas, Among other accomplishments as Nevada’s Representative

in Congress, George Cassidy was responsible for the initial appropriation

for the construction of the Federal Building in Carson City, which today is

occupied by Nevada’s Commission on Tourism and Nevada Magazine;

now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, That George W.

Cassidy, an outstanding State Senator and Congressman, who sponsored

progressive legislative measures in both the Nevada Senate and the United

States House of Representatives, is hereby inducted into the Senate Hall of

Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.

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