William E. Simonds

William E. Simonds

William Edgar Simonds (born November 24, 1842 in Collinsville , Hartford County , Connecticut , †  March 14, 1903 in Hartford , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Simonds attended public schools in his home country including Collinsville High School . In 1860 he graduated from Connecticut State Normal School in New Britain . After that he started working as a teacher. During the Civil War , he joined a Connecticut infantry regiment as a soldier . There he rose to senior sergeant. Then he became a lieutenant in the Union's regular army. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor for his military valor at the Battle of Irish Bend in Louisiana . After the war, Simonds attended Yale University's law school. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar. Then he began to work in Hartford in this profession.

Simonds was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1883 and 1885 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives . There he was president of the house in 1885 . In the congressional elections of 1888 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first district of Connecticut , where he succeeded Democrat Robert J. Vance on March 4, 1889 . But since he was not confirmed in 1890, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1891 .

Between 1891 and 1893 Vance was federal commissioner for patent matters. He then worked again as a lawyer until his death in March 1903.

Web links

• William E. Simonds in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William E. Simonds in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• William E. Simonds at The Political Graveyard