William Bennett Fleming

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William Bennett Fleming (born October 29, 1803 in Flemington , Liberty County , Georgia , †  August 19, 1886 in Walthourville , Georgia) was an American politician . In 1879 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Fleming attended the public schools of his home country and then Yale College until 1825 , from which today's Yale University emerged . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Savannah in his new profession. Between 1847 and 1849 and again from 1853 to 1868 he was a judge in Chatham County . In between he practiced as a lawyer. In 1868 he became a town clerk ( recorder ) of Savannah.

Politically, Fleming was a member of the Democratic Party . After the death of MP Julian Hartridge , he was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the first seat of Georgia , where he took up his new mandate on February 10, 1879. By March 3 of the same year he ended the current legislative period in Congress . Then in the regular stepped elections of 1878 elected John C. Nicholls to his successor.

Between 1879 and 1881, William Fleming was again a judge in his home district. He resigned from this office in 1881 for health reasons. He then withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Walthourville, where he died on August 19, 1886.

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SURNAME Fleming, William Bennett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH near Flemington , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1886
Place of death Walthourville , Georgia