William A. Calderhead
William Alexander Calderhead (* September 26, 1844 in New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio, † December 18, 1928 in Enid, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897, and again from 1899 to 1911, he was the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
William Calderhead attended both private and public schools. He then attended the Franklin College in New Athens. During the Civil War he was a soldier in an infantry regiment from Ohio. He was severely wounded and allocated because of its resulting from the disability wounding a reserve unit. In July 1865, he left the military.
In 1868, Calderhead moved into the Harvey County, Kansas, where he worked near Newton in agriculture. In 1872 he moved to the city of Newton, where he worked as a teacher and studied law until 1875. In that year he was admitted to the bar. Then he moved to Atchison, to work as a teacher. In 1879 he began to practice as a lawyer after another move to Marysville in Marshall County. Between 1889 and 1891 he was district attorney in Marshall County.
Calderhead was a member of the Republican Party in 1894 as its candidate in the fifth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1895 on the succession of John Davis. But since he already at the next election William D. Vincent subject of the Populist Party, Calderhead was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1987. But two years later, he managed to return to the House of Representatives and was also Vincent's successor. Between March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1911, he spent six other legislative periods in Congress. From 1903 to 1907 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Justice. In the elections of 1910, he was not nominated by his party for another term.
After the end of his time in Congress, William Calderhead worked until 1920 in Marysville as a lawyer. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Enid ( Oklahoma), where he died in 1928. He was buried in Marysville.