William B. Read

William Brown Read ( * December 14, 1817 in Hardin County, Kentucky; † August 5, 1880 in Hodgenville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Read first attended the primary schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1849 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Hodgenville in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1860 he was a delegate to two Democratic National Convention in Charleston and Baltimore. In 1864 he also took on the Federal Democratic convention in Chicago in part. Between 1857 and 1865 he sat in the Senate from Kentucky.

In 1863, Read applied unsuccessfully for the post desVizegouvernurs his state. Between 1867 and 1869 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the congressional elections of 1870 he was in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of J. Proctor Knott on March 4, 1871. After a re-election in 1872 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions.

For the elections of 1874 William Read has not been nominated by his party for another term. As a result, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 5 August 1880 in his hometown of Hodgenville.