William W. McCredie

William W. McCredie with his wife

William Wallace McCredie (born April 27, 1862 in Montrose , Susquehanna County , Pennsylvania , †  May 10, 1935 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

While he was a child, William McCredie and his parents moved to a farm near Manchester , Iowa . He then attended the Iowa public schools and Cornell College at Mount Vernon . There he graduated in 1885. Between 1885 and 1889 he worked as a teacher in Parkersburg . He then began law school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City , which he continued after moving to Portland, Oregon. After his admission to the bar in 1890, he began working in his new profession in Vancouver . McCredie was district attorney in Clark County from 1894 to 1896 ; between 1904 and 1909 he served as a judge at the Vancouver Court. From 1904 he was a co-owner of the Portland baseball club .

Politically, McCredie was a member of the Republican Party . After the death of Francis W. Cushman , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when the by-election for Washington's second mandate was due . There he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1909. Since he was not nominated again by his party for the 1910 elections, he was only able to end the current term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1911 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, McCredie became President of the Pacific Coast Baseball League . He held this post until 1921. Otherwise he worked again as a lawyer. He died in Portland on May 10, 1935.

Web links

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

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