William A. Lake

William Augustus Lake (born January 6, 1808 in Cambridge , Dorchester County , Maryland , † October 15, 1861 in Hopefield , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Lake received a good education and then studied at Jefferson College in Pennsylvania . As early as 1831 he became a member of the Maryland House of Representatives . After moving to Vicksburg , Mississippi, and studying law, he began practicing his profession in his new hometown.

Politically, he was a member of the short-lived American Party . In 1848 Lake was elected to the Mississippi Senate. In the congressional elections of 1854, he made the leap into the US House of Representatives, where he replaced the Democrat Wiley Pope Harris on March 4, 1855 . But since he was not re-elected in 1856, Lake could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1857 .

After retiring from Congress, Lake returned to practice as a lawyer. From 1859 to 1861 he was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives . In 1861 he ran for the Confederate States Congress . During the campaign there was a duel with a political opponent named Chambers in Hopefield, across from Memphis on the west bank of the Mississippi , in which William Lake was killed.

Web links

• William A. Lake in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William A. Lake in the database of Find a Grave (English)