William Farrand Prosser

William Farrand Prosser

William Farrand Prosser (born March 16, 1834 in Williamsport , Pennsylvania , †  September 23, 1911 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a rather average elementary school education, William Prosser initially worked as a teacher himself for some time. He later studied law. But he never practiced as a lawyer. In 1854 he moved to California , where he worked in the mining industry. In 1861 he returned to Pennsylvania. During the civil war he rose to the rank of colonel in the Union army . In 1862 he was briefly taken prisoner of war. After the war, he settled on a farm near Nashville , Tennessee.

In his new home he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . From 1867 to 1869 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee . In the congressional election of 1868 Prosser was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded John Trimble on March 4, 1869 . Since he was defeated by the Democrat Edward Isaac Golladay in 1870 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1871 .

Between 1872 and 1875 Prosser was a post holder in Nashville. He also became a director of the Tennessee, Edgefield & Kentucky Railroad Railroad . In 1872 he was also one of the commissioners for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In this context, he traveled to Europe in 1873 to advertise this event there. For a few years Prosser also published the Nashville Republican newspaper. In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes named Prosser special envoy of the Home Office for the Northwestern Area of ​​the United States. He then moved his residence to what was then Washington Territory , where he founded the place named after him, Prosser . In 1889 Prosser was a delegate to the constituent assembly of the new state of Washington. In the following years he held a few local offices in his new home. He was mayor of North Yakima and from 1908 to 1910 treasurer of Seattle. He died there on September 23, 1911.

Web links

• William Farrand Prosser in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Farrand Prosser in the database of Find a Grave (English)