William R. Ellis

William R. Ellis (1896)

William Russell Ellis (born April 23, 1850 in Waveland , Montgomery County , Indiana , † January 18, 1915 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). Between 1893 and 1911 he twice represented the second constituency of the state of Oregon in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1855, William Ellis moved with his parents to Guthrie County , Iowa , where he attended public schools. He then studied at the State Agricultural College in Ames . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa , he was admitted to the bar in 1874. Then he began to work in Panora in his new profession. In Panora, Ellis was mayor for one term. After moving to Hamburg , also in Iowa, he also worked there as a lawyer and got into the newspaper business. He also became the city's legal representative for two years. Between 1880 and 1881 he was also mayor of Hamburg.

In 1884 Ellis moved to Heppner , Oregon. Between 1885 and 1886 he was a school supervisor ( superintendent ) in Morrow County and from 1886 to 1892 Ellis was a district attorney in the Seventh Legal District of Oregon. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the then newly created second district of Oregon, where he could serve three legislative terms between March 4, 1893 and March 3, 1899. He was temporarily chairman of the Ministry of Justice's expenditure monitoring committee and a member of the committee that dealt with irrigation issues in arid areas. In 1898, Ellis sought another candidacy, but was no longer run by his party. Instead, the nomination went to Malcolm A. Moody .

Between 1900 and 1906 he was a district judge. From 1901 William Ellis lived in Pendleton . There he also worked as a lawyer. In the congressional elections of 1906, Ellis was able to prevail in his party's primary elections and then win back his old seat in Congress . There he replaced John N. Williamson , who had taken over the seat from Malcolm Moody in 1903. Between March 4, 1907 and March 3, 1911, he completed two further terms. In 1910 he was defeated in the primary to Walter Lafferty , who then also won the actual elections and replaced Ellis in Congress.

After retiring from Washington, DC , William Ellis returned to the Pendleton bar. In July 1914 he moved to Portland, where he died in January 1915.

Web links

• William R. Ellis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William R. Ellis in the database of Find a Grave (English)