William Thomas Ellis

William Thomas Ellis

William Thomas Ellis (born July 24, 1845 in Knottsville , Daviess County , Kentucky , †  January 8, 1925 in Owensboro , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1895 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Ellis attended the common schools and took then as a soldier in the army of the Confederacy on the civil war in part. After the war, he continued his education at Pleasant Valley Seminary . After that he first worked in the school service. In 1867 and 1868 he was director of the Mount Etna Academy in Ohio County . After studying law at Harvard University and being admitted to the bar, he began practicing this profession in Owensboro in 1870. In 1870 and 1874 he was elected District Attorney.

Politically, Ellis became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1886 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the congressional election of 1888 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Polk Laffoon on March 4, 1889 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1895. There he was since 1891 chairman of the committee that dealt with the revision of the laws.

In 1894, William Ellis declined to run again. In July 1896, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where William Jennings Bryan was nominated for presidential nomination. Otherwise Ellis practiced as a lawyer again; he also dealt with literary matters. He died in Owensboro on January 8, 1925.

Web links

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

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