William P. McLean

William Pinkney McLean (born August 9, 1836 in Copiah County , Mississippi , † March 13, 1925 in Fort Worth , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1839, William McLean and his mother came to Marshall in the then independent Republic of Texas . There he attended private schools. After a subsequent law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his admission to the bar in 1857, he began to work in Jefferson in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1861 he became a member of the Texas House of Representatives . But he resigned this mandate in order to take part in the civil war as a soldier in the Confederation Army . Between 1861 and 1865 he rose from simple soldier to major. In 1869 McLean moved back to the state parliament.

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Texas , where he succeeded John C. Conner on March 4, 1873 . Since he refused to run again in 1874, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1875 . After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, McLean practiced as a lawyer in Mount Pleasant . In 1875 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Texas state constitution; in 1884 he became a judge in his state's fifth judicial district. Between 1891 and 1893, William McLean was a member of the Texas Railroad Committee. He then moved to Fort Worth, where he worked as a lawyer again. He died there on March 13, 1925.

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SURNAME	McLean, William P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	McLean, William Pinkney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 9, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copiah County , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 1925
Place of death	Fort Worth , Texas