William S. West

William Stanley West (born August 23, 1849 in Buena Vista , Marion County , Georgia , † December 22, 1914 in Valdosta , Georgia) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Georgia in the US Senate .

William West attended schools in Lookout Mountain ( Tennessee ) and Penfield , before he became a teacher himself. In 1876 he made his Jura Accounts at the Law School of Mercer University , after which he was admitted to the Bar Association and in Statesville started practicing.

In 1892 West was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives for the Democratic Party , of which he was a member until 1901. That year he moved to the state Senate , where he remained until 1906; between 1905 and 1906 he was its president.

After Augustus O. Bacon's death in February 1914, West was appointed his successor in the US Senate. He took the vacant place from March 2, 1914 to November 3 of the same year and resigned from the Chamber of Parliament after an official successor had been elected in Thomas W. Hardwick . During his brief tenure in the Senate, he was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department .

West returned to Georgia to resume his job as a planter , but died just a month after he left the Senate.

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SURNAME	West, William S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	West, William Stanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 23, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Buena Vista , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1914
Place of death	Valdosta , Georgia