William Wall (politician, 1800)

William Wall

William Wall (born March 20, 1800 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † April 20, 1872 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1863 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Wall received a modest education. He learned the craft of rope production and then worked as a journeyman. Wall became a manufacturer of ropes. In 1822 he moved to Kings County . In the following time he worked there as a trustee , commissioner of highways , town supervisor , member of the board of finance and commissioner of the water works of Williamsburg (now part of New York City ). In 1853 he became mayor of Williamsburg. Wall was one of the founders and for many years President of Williamsburg Savings Bank, as well as one of the founders of Williamsburg City Bank (later First National Bank ) and the Williamsburg Dispensary .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1860 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded William B. Maclay on March 4, 1861 . Since he on a run again in 1862 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1863 Congress of.

He then took part in 1866 as a delegate to the Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia . He died on April 20, 1872 in Brooklyn and was buried there in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

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

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