William Pitt Lynde

William Pitt Lynde

William Pitt Lynde (born December 16, 1817 in Sherburne , Chenango County , New York , †  December 18, 1885 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1848 and 1849 and again from 1875 to 1879 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Lynde attended Hamilton Academy and Hamilton College and then studied at Yale College until 1838 . After studying law at New York University and Harvard University , he was admitted to the bar in 1841. In the same year he moved to Milwaukee. In 1844 Lynde became Attorney General in the Wisconsin Territory . A year later he became a federal prosecutor in the same territory .

Politically, Lynde was a member of the Democratic Party . After Wisconsin's accession to the Union, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of the new state , where he took up his new mandate on January 5, 1848. Since he was not confirmed in the regular congressional elections of 1848 , he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1849 .

In 1849, William Lynde ran unsuccessfully for the Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice. In 1860 he was elected Mayor of Milwaukee City. In 1866 he became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly ; between 1869 and 1870 he was a member of the State Senate . In the congressional election of 1874 , he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the fourth district of Wisconsin. There he replaced Alexander Mitchell on March 4, 1875 . After re-election in 1876, he was able to complete two more legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1879. From 1877 he was chairman of the committee to control expenditure on state properties. In 1876, he led the impeachment proceedings against Secretary of War William W. Belknap .

For the elections of 1878 William Lynde declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he retired. He died in Milwaukee on December 18, 1885.

Web links

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

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