William Samuel Booze

William Samuel Booze (born January 9, 1862 in Baltimore , Maryland , †  December 6, 1933 in Wilmington , Delaware ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Booze attended his homeland public schools as well as Baltimore City College , which he graduated from in 1879. After a subsequent medical degree at the University of Maryland and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and his license as a doctor in 1882, he began to work in this profession in Baltimore. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1894, despite an objection, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress.

In the congressional election of 1896 , Booze was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Harry Welles Rusk on March 4, 1897 . Since he refused to run again in 1898, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1899 . This was shaped by the events of the Spanish-American War .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Booze worked in banking and the stock market. From 1915 he practiced as a doctor again. In 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Theodore Roosevelt and later William Howard Taft were nominated as presidential candidates. William Booze died on December 6, 1933 on the way back from a trip to South America in Wilmington and was buried in Baltimore.

Web links

• William Samuel Booze in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Samuel Booze in the database of Find a Grave (English)