William A. Lake

William Augustus Lake ( * January 6, 1808 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, † October 15, 1861 in Hopefield, Arkansas ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Lake enjoyed a good education and then studied at Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. Already in 1831 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maryland. After a move to Vicksburg in Mississippi and a law degree, he began to practice in his new hometown in his profession.

Politically, he was a member of the short-lived American Party. 1848 Lake was elected to the Senate from Mississippi. In the congressional elections of 1854 he made ​​the jump to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Democrats Wiley Pope Harris replaced on March 4, 1855. Because it did not re-elected in 1856, Lake was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857.

After retiring from Congress Lake again worked as a lawyer. From 1859 to 1861 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Mississippi. In 1861 he ran for the Congress of the Confederate States. During the election campaign, it came with a political opponent named Chambers in Hopefield, located across from Memphis on the west bank of the Mississippi, to a duel, in which William Lake was killed.