William W. Wick

William Watson Wick ( born February 23, 1796 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, † May 19 1868 in Franklin, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1849 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1800, William Wick came with his parents in the area that was then known as Western Reserve and now located in the northeastern part of the state of Ohio. There he attended the local schools. In 1816 he moved to Cincinnati, where he worked for some time as a teacher. Then he was studying medicine and law. As a result, he decided on a legal career. After his 1819 was admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession in 1820 in Connersville. In the years 1820 and 1821, he was first in the House of Representatives from Indiana and then employed by the state Senate in the administration. From 1822 to 1825 was Judge Wick in the fifth judicial district of Indiana. After that, he was 1825-1829 as Secretary of State, the Executive Officer of the State Government. From 1829 to 1831 he served as a prosecutor in the fifth judicial district.

Politically, Wick member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was in the sixth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Herod on March 4, 1839. Since he has not been confirmed in 1840, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1841. He then worked as a lawyer in Indianapolis. In the 1844 elections Wick was selected in the fifth district of his state as the successor to William J. Brown again in the Congress, where he could spend 1849 two further terms between 4 March 1845 to 3 March. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War. Wick was a racist and fought for the preservation of white supremacy. Among other things, he declared that he wanted " no race-mixing in the Union and no other men than whites, unless they are slaves."

In 1848 he gave up another Congress candidate. In the years 1850-1853 he was again judge in the Fifth District of Indiana. From 1853 to 1857 he headed the postal authorities of the city of Indianapolis. In addition, he was a staff officer ( adjutant general) the state militia. Since 1857, William Wick lived in Franklin, where he practiced law. There he died on 19 May 1868.