William P. McLean

William Pinkney McLean ( born August 9, 1836 Copiah County, Mississippi, † March 13, 1925 in Fort Worth, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1839 William McLean came with his mother to Marshall in the then independent Republic of Texas. There he attended private schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his 1857 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Jefferson in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1861 he became a deputy in the Texas House of Representatives. But this mandate, he resigned to take part as a soldier in the army of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Between 1861 and 1865 he was promoted to Major of ordinary soldiers. In 1869, McLean moved again in the State Parliament.

In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the second electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John C. Conner on March 4, 1873. Since he resigned in 1874 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1875. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives McLean practiced law in Mount Pleasant. In 1875 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the constitution of Texas; in 1884 he became a judge in the fifth judicial district of his state. Between 1891 and 1893 William McLean was a member of the railroad committee of Texas. He then moved to Fort Worth, where he worked again as a lawyer. He died there on March 13, 1925.