William W. Kingsbury

William Wallace Kingsbury (born June 4, 1828 in Towanda , Bradford County , Pennsylvania , †  April 17, 1892 in Tarpon Springs , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1858 he represented the Minnesota Territory as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives .

Career

William Kingsbury attended public schools in his home country. He then worked as a shop clerk and as a land surveyor. In 1852 he moved to Endion in what was then the Minnesota Territory. There he became politically active as a member of the Democratic Party .

In 1857 Kingsbury was an MP in the Territorial House of Representatives. In the same year he took part as a delegate to the constituent assembly for the future state of Minnesota. In the congressional election of 1856 he was elected as a delegate from his territory to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took over from Henry Mower Rice on March 4, 1857 . After the state of Minnesota was created out of part of its territory, his term ended on May 11, 1858. During his short time in Congress , he had no voting rights as a delegate there. But he experienced the heated discussions about the question of slavery in the run-up to the civil war .

In the first regular congressional elections in the new state of Minnesota, Kingsbury decided not to run. In 1865 he returned to his hometown Towanda, Pennsylvania. There he worked in the insurance and real estate industries. Later he was for three years Commission dealer in Baltimore ( Maryland ). In 1887 Kingsbury moved to Tarpon Springs, Florida. There, too, he was active in trade and real estate. William Kingsbury died on April 17, 1892 in his new hometown.

Web links

• William W. Kingsbury in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William W. Kingsbury in the database of Find a Grave (English)