William S. Holman

William S. Holman

William Steele Holman (born September 6, 1822 in Aurora , Dearborn County , Indiana , †  April 22, 1897 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1859 and 1897 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

William Holman attended his home public schools and Franklin College . After that he worked as a teacher himself for a few years. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. From 1843 to 1846 he was a judge at a probate court; from 1847 to 1849 he worked as a public prosecutor. He was then until 1856 judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana. In the decades that followed, Holman was primarily involved in politics as a member of the Democratic Party . As early as 1850 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Indiana constitution; from 1851 to 1852 he was a member of the House of Representatives of that state.

In the congressional election of 1858 , Holman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth constituency of Indiana, where he succeeded James B. Foley on March 4, 1859 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1865 . These had been shaped by the events of the civil war since 1861 . In 1864 Holman declined to run for office. Two years later he was re-elected to Congress in the fourth district, where he replaced John Hanson Farquhar on March 4, 1867 , who had succeeded him in 1865. After four re-elections, he was able to spend five more legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1877. Since 1869 he represented there as the successor to Morton C. Hunter the third constituency of his state. In the years 1867 and 1868, Holman experienced the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Republican Party as a congressman , which culminated in an impeachment trial against the president that had just failed in the US Senate .

From 1876 to 1877, William Holman was chairman of the grants committee . In the same legislative period, he also headed the Committee on Public Properties. In 1878, Holman did not run for Congress. In the elections of 1880 he was then re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the fourth district. Between March 4, 1881 and March 3, 1895, Holman served seven additional terms in the US House of Representatives. In the years 1887 to 1889 he once again headed the committee for public properties. From 1891 to 1893 he was again chairman of the grant committee as the successor to Joseph Gurney Cannon ; then he headed the Indian Committee until 1895.

In 1896, Holman was not confirmed. A year later, again in Indiana fourth district, he was elected one last time to Congress. His new legislative term began on March 4, 1897. William Holman died only a few weeks later in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• William S. Holman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William S. Holman in the database of Find a Grave (English)