William Neville

This article is about the US politician William Neville; for the English politician and nobleman of the same name, see William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent .

William Harriman Neville (born December 29, 1843 in Nashville , Illinois , † April 5, 1909 in Douglas , Arizona ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1851, William Neville moved with his parents to Chester , Randolph County , Illinois. There he attended public schools and McKendree College in Lebanon . During the Civil War he was a sergeant in the Union Army.

After the war Neville studied law and after graduating worked as a lawyer in Chester. In 1872 he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. In May 1874 he moved to Nebraska, where he practiced as a lawyer in North Platte from 1877 . He was a member of the Populist Party and ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives in 1884. Between 1891 and 1895, Neville was a judge in the Nebraska 13th Legal District.

After the death of Congressman William Laury Greene , Neville was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 1899 by- election. After he was confirmed in office in the regular elections of 1900, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1903 . In 1902 he no longer applied for this mandate.

After his tenure in Congress, Neville moved to Douglas, Arizona, where he also worked as a lawyer. In 1905 he was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives. William Neville died in Douglas in 1909 and was buried in North Platte. He was a cousin of Bird Segle McGuire , who represented Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives between 1903 and 1914 .

Web links

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

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