William P. Curlin

William P. Curlin

William Prather Curlin (born November 30, 1933 in Paducah , Kentucky ) is a former American politician . Between 1971 and 1973 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Curlin attended Frankfort High School in Kentucky. He then studied until 1958 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington . After studying law at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1962, he began to practice this profession. In the meantime he was a soldier in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957 . Between 1962 and 1964 he worked as an attorney for the Kentucky Tax Department.

Politically, Curlin became a member of the Democratic Party . From 1968 to 1971 he was an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives . There he chaired the budget committee. After the death of MP John C. Watts , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due in the sixth constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on December 4, 1971. Since he refused to run again in the regular congressional elections of 1972, he was only able to end the current term of his predecessor in Congress until January 3, 1973 .

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Curlin withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Today he lives in Versailles .

Web links

• William P. Curlin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)