US Congressman. He was born one of four children (he also had one brother and two sisters) in Reading, Pennsylvania, to George Milton Rhodes Sr. and Catherine A. Fessleri Rhodes, and was educated in local common public schools in the Reading, Pennsylvania, area. During World War I, he served in the United States Army. He married Margie Seiverling and the two would have two children (Jean and George). Following his military service he worked as a printer for the Reading Eagle Company from 1913 to 1927, and as the business manager for the Reading Labor Era from 1927 to 1942, both based in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was also the editor and manager of the Lancaster New Era in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1942 to 1949. He also became involved in the labor movement. He became a labor representative of the American Federation of Labor (or AFL) and served as the President of Federated Trades Council, American Federation of Labor (or AFL), Central Labor Union from 1928 to 1951. He also served as a Member of the Reading Housing Authority from 1938 to 1948. A member of the Socialist Party of the State of Pennsylvania, he ran for a number of local offices on the Socialist ticket, and was named as a Delegate to the Socialist National Conventions in 1928 and again in 1932. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected as Democrat to the 81st Congress defeating the incumbent United States Representative Republican Frederick Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg. A Democrat, he then served Pennsylvania's 6th, 13th and 14th Districts (Eighty-First and to the first nine succeeding Congresses) in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969. While in the United States Congress he was a supporter of collective bargaining rights and also worked with United States Senator Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston of South Carolina to introduce the Rhodes-Johnson Bill, which would have recognized the collective bargaining rights of all federal workers. Unfortunately, the bill never came to a vote to objections of then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but when President John F. Kennedy took office a limited version of the bill was proposed and later adopted by the Kennedy administration in 1961. For his help in getting this bill passed that helped create Medicare, he became fondly known as "Mr. Social Security" and "Mr. Democrat." During his time in the United States Congress he had also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952 and again in 1956. He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-First Congress in 1968. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1969, he was succeeded by United States Representative Gus Yatron. In his later years, he had to live in a nursing home after he suffered from serious health complications including several strokes, major surgeries, and being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1973. He passed away in Reading, Pennsylvania, at the age of 80. His funeral was held at the Henninger Funeral Home in Reading, Pennsylvania, and he was interred in the Forest Hills Memorial Park in Reiffton, Pennsylvania. His wife Margie passed away on July 17, 1998, at the age of 97, and she was interred with her husband. The George M. Rhodes Apartments in Reading, Pennsylvania, are named after him.