William Wallace Phelps

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William Wallace Phelps (born June 1, 1826 in Oakland County , Michigan , †  August 3, 1873 in Spring Lake , Michigan) was an American politician . Between 1858 and 1859 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Phelps attended public schools in his home country. He then studied to 1846 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1848, he began to work in his new profession. He also worked as a registrar for the Land Registry in Red Wing in what was then the Minnesota Territory .

Politically, Phelps was a member of the Democratic Party . After Minnesota's accession to the Union, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of the new state , where he took up his new mandate on May 11, 1858. By March 3, 1859, he ended the current legislative period in Congress , which was determined by the heated discussions about the question of slavery in the run-up to the civil war .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Phelps returned to working as an attorney in Red Wing. He died in Spring Lake, Michigan in August 1873 and was buried in Red Wing.

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