William Joseph Deboe

William Joseph Deboe

William Joseph Deboe (born June 30, 1849 in Crittenden County , Kentucky , †  June 15, 1927 in Marion , Kentucky) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Kentucky in the US Senate .

William Joseph Deboe attended Ewing College in Illinois , where he studied law and medicine . He then graduated from the University of Louisville Medical School and subsequently practiced as a doctor for a few years before refreshing his law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He then began working as a lawyer in Marion, Crittenden County. In his home county he was also a superintendent of schools .

His first candidacy for political office failed in 1892 when he was not elected to the US House of Representatives. From 1893 Deboe sat in the Kentucky Senate . His second candidacy for Congress in 1896 was successful when he was elected one of the two US Senators for Kentucky. He remained in the Senate from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1903 and did not stand for re-election after one term. While in Washington , he chaired two Senate committees: the Committee on Indian Depredations and the Committee to Establish the University of the United States .

In 1912 Deboe was Kentucky's delegate to the Republican National Convention . From 1923 to 1927 he served as Marion's postmaster, where he also died.

Web links

• William Joseph Deboe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Joseph Deboe in the database of Find a Grave (English)