George W. Ladd

George Washington Ladd (September 28, 1818 – January 30, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Maine.

[1] Ladd attended the common schools and Kents Hill Seminary.

[1] Later engaged in the lumber, commission, and wholesale grocery business in Bangor.

In both congresses he was one of only four Greenback congressmen from the northeast, the party's major strength being in the Midwest and South.

Ladd served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-sixth Congress).