William P. Holaday

William Perry Holaday (* December 14, 1882 in Ridge Farm, Vermilion County, Illinois, † January 29, 1946 in Georgetown, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Holaday attended the public schools of his home and then the Vermilion Grove Academy and the Penn College in Oskaloosa (Iowa). He then studied at the University of Missouri in Columbia. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana and his 1905 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Danville in this profession. Between 1905 and 1907 he was also deputy prosecutor in Vermilion County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1909 and 1923 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1922, Holaday was in the 18th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Gurney Cannon on March 4, 1923. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1933 five legislative sessions. In 1932, he was not confirmed. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Holaday again practiced as a lawyer in Danville. He died on 29 January 1946 in Georgetown, where he was also buried.