William S. Cowherd

William S. Cowherd

William Strother Cowherd (born September 1, 1860 at Lee's Summit , Missouri , †  June 20, 1915 in Pasadena , California ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1905 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Cowherd attended the public schools of his home country and then studied literature until 1881 at the University of Missouri in Columbia . After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1882, he began working in this profession in Kansas City . Between 1885 and 1889 Cowherd was an assistant district attorney in Jackson County there . In 1890 he worked as a lawyer for the Kansas City government. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . He served as Mayor of Kansas City from 1892 to 1893.

In the congressional election of 1896 , Cowherd was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Robert T. Van Horn on March 4, 1897 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1905 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . In 1904 Cowherd was defeated by Republican Edgar C. Ellis .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Cowherd practiced again as a lawyer in Kansas City. In 1908 he ran for governor of Missouri, but lost 48:50 percent of the vote to Republican Herbert S. Hadley . He then moved to Pasadena, California, where he worked as a lawyer. He died there on June 20, 1915. He was buried in his hometown of Lee's Summit.

Web links

• William S. Cowherd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William S. Cowherd in the database of Find a Grave (English)