William S. Mesick

William S. Mesick

William Smith Mesick (born August 26, 1856 in Newark , New York , †  December 1, 1942 in Petoskey , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Mesick attended public schools in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and then a business school. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission as a lawyer in 1881, he began to work in Mancelona in his new profession. Mesick was also a tenured district attorney in Antrim County .

Politically, Mesick was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1896 , he was elected to the Eleventh constituency of Michigan in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John Avery on March 4, 1897 . After re-election in 1898, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1901 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . Since 1899, William Mesick was chairman of the third electoral committee ( Committee on Elections No. 3 ).

In 1900 he was not nominated for re-election by his party. He then worked as a lawyer in Mancelona. He later moved his residence and his law firm to Petoskey, where he died on December 1, 1942.

Web links

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

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