William A. Calderhead

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William A. Calderhead

William Alexander Calderhead (born September 26, 1844 in New Lexington , Perry County , Ohio , †  December 18, 1928 in Enid , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 and again from 1899 to 1911 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Calderhead attended both private and public schools. He then graduated from Franklin College in New Athens . During the Civil War he was a soldier in an infantry regiment from Ohio. He was seriously wounded and was assigned to a reserve unit because of his disability resulting from the wound. In July 1865 he left the military.

In 1868 Calderhead moved to Harvey County , Kansas, where he worked in agriculture near Newton . In 1872 he moved to the town of Newton, where he worked as a teacher and studied law until 1875. That year he was admitted to the bar. He then moved to Atchison to work as a teacher. He began practicing law in 1879 after relocating again to Marysville , Marshall County . Between 1889 and 1891 he was a district attorney in Marshall County.

Calderhead was a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1894 as its candidate in the fifth district of Kansas . There he took over from John Davis on March 4, 1895 . But since he was defeated by William D. Vincent from the Populist Party in the next election , Calderhead was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1987 . Two years later he managed to return to the House of Representatives and was Vincent's successor. Between March 4, 1899 and March 3, 1911, he spent six more terms in Congress. From 1903 to 1907 he was chairman of the Ministry of Justice's expenditure control committee. In the elections of 1910 he was not nominated by his party for another term.

After his tenure in Congress, William Calderhead worked as a lawyer in Marysville until 1920. Then he retired, which he spent in Enid, Oklahoma, where he died in 1928. He was buried in Marysville.

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personal data
SURNAME Calderhead, William A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calderhead, William Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH New Lexington , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1928
Place of death Enid , Oklahoma