William Ledyard Stark

William Ledyard Stark (born July 29, 1853 in Mystic , New London County , Connecticut , † November 11, 1922 in Tarpon Springs , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1903 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Stark attended the Mystic Valley Institute until 1872 . After moving to Wyoming in Stark County , Illinois , he worked as a teacher and shop clerk. After studying law at the Union College of Law in Chicago and being admitted to the bar in 1878, he moved to Aurora , Nebraska. There he became the head of the school board of that place and was deputy district attorney. He then served as a district judge in Hamilton County . William Stark was also a major in the Nebraska National Guard, where he served in the legal department.

Stark was a member of the short-lived Populist Party . For this party he ran in the congressional elections of 1894 for the first time for the US House of Representatives and was defeated by the Republican incumbent Eugene Jerome Hainer . Two years later he was able to defeat Hainer and take his place in Congress on March 4, 1897 . After two re-elections, he held this mandate until March 3, 1903. After running unsuccessfully for another term in 1902, William Stark retired to Aurora. He died in Florida on November 11, 1922 and was buried in Aurora.

Web links

• William Ledyard Stark in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Ledyard Stark in the Databank Find a Grave (English)