William A. Massey

William A. Massey

William Alexander Massey (* 7. October 1856 in Oakfield , Trumbull County , Ohio , †  5. March 1914 in Litchfield , Nevada ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the state of Nevada in the US Senate represented.

Life

William Massey was less than ten years old when he left Ohio with his parents in 1865. The family settled in Edgar County , Illinois , where the boy attended public schools. He later continued his education in Indiana at Union Christian College in Merom and Asbury University in Greencastle . He studied law , was inducted into the bar in 1877, and began practicing law in Sullivan . In 1886 he moved to San Diego , California , before settling in Nevada the following year. He dug there for mineral resources and worked in mining before continuing his legal skills in Elko .

Public offices

From 1892 to 1894, Massey held his first political mandate as a member of the Nevada Assembly . Between 1894 and 1896 he served as the district attorney; from 1896 he was a judge at the Supreme Court of Nevada . He resigned from this post in 1902. After he had worked as a lawyer in Reno for a few years again , William Massey was appointed on July 1, 1912 by Governor Tasker Oddie to succeed the late US Senator George S. Nixon .

Massey took over the chairmanship of the Senate Mining Committee . However, he only stayed in Congress until January 29, 1913 , when he lost the by-election to Democrat Key Pittman . As a result he worked again as a lawyer; he died in March 1914 during a train ride near Litchfield and was buried in Reno.

Web links

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

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