William Augustus Darling

William Augustus Darling (born December 27, 1817 in Newark , New Jersey , † May 26, 1895 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1865 and 1867 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Augustus Darling was born and raised in Newark about two and a half years after the end of the British-American War . During this time he attended public schools. He then moved to New York City, where he worked first as a clerk and later as a grocer. Darling was a director of the Mercantile Library Association . He served eleven years as a private and officer in the New York National Guard . In 1847 he became Deputy Receiver of Taxes in New York City - a position he held until 1854. He was then President of the Third Avenue Railroad between 1854 and 1865 . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the 1864 congressional election for the 39th Congress , Darling was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Anson Herrick on March 4, 1865 . In 1866 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1867 Congress of.

During his time in Congress, he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City in 1866. Darling was on 26 April 1869 to 17 April 1871 as a tax collector in the ninth district of New York operates and from 18 April 1871 to April 1, 1876 as a witness ( appraiser ). He went into banking and was President of Murray Hill Bank . He died on May 26, 1895 in New York City and was then buried in Trinity Church Cemetery .

Web links

• William Augustus Darling in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Augustus Darling in the database of Find a Grave (English)