William B. Spencer

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William B. Spencer

William Brainerd Spencer (born February 5, 1835 in Catahoula Parish , Louisiana , †  February 12, 1882 in Córdoba , Mexico ) was an American politician . Between 1876 and 1877 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Spencer enjoyed a private school education in his youth. He then attended Centenary College in Jackson until 1855 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans and his admission to the bar in 1857, he began to work in Harrisonburg in his new profession. During the Civil War , Spencer was a captain in the Confederate Army until 1863 . He was captured by Union forces in 1863 and interned in a prison camp in Ohio until the end of the war in 1865 .

In 1866 he began practicing law again in Vidalia . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional election of 1874 he was defeated in the fifth constituency of Louisiana to the Republican incumbent Frank Morey . But Spencer appealed against the outcome of the election. After this was complied with, he was able to move into the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC on June 8, 1876 and take over Morey's mandate. Spencer only held his new office until January 8, 1877. Then he stepped down for being a judge on the Louisiana Supreme Court .

William Spencer was a judge until 1880. He then worked as a lawyer in New Orleans. He died on February 12, 1882 while staying in Mexico and was buried in Baton Rouge .

Web links

  • William B. Spencer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)