William H. Doolittle

William H. Doolittle

William Hall Doolittle (born November 6, 1848 in Erie County , Pennsylvania , †  February 26, 1914 in Tacoma , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1859, William Doolittle moved with his parents to Portage County , Wisconsin . There he attended public schools. At the beginning of 1865 he was a soldier for a few months in the civil war that was coming to an end . In 1867 he continued his education in Pennsylvania. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1871, he began to work in his new profession from 1872 in Tecumseh ( Nebraska ).

Politically, Doolittle became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1874 and 1876 he was an MP in the Nebraska House of Representatives . He was then from 1876 to 1880 deputy federal attorney of that state. In 1880 he moved to the Washington Territory . There he settled in Colfax to practice as a lawyer. In 1888 he moved to Tacoma.

In the state-wide held congressional elections of 1892 Doolittle was elected for the then newly created second mandate of his state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took his seat on March 4, 1893. After re-election in 1894, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1897 . In the elections of 1896 he was defeated by the Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis . In the years that followed, until his death, William Doolittle worked again as a lawyer. He was buried in Tacoma.

Web links

• William H. Doolittle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William H. Doolittle in the database of Find a Grave (English)