William A. Lake
William Augustus Lake ( * January 6, 1808 in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, † October 15, 1861 in Hopefield, Arkansas ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
William Lake enjoyed a good education and then studied at Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. Already in 1831 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Maryland. After a move to Vicksburg in Mississippi and a law degree, he began to practice in his new hometown in his profession.
Politically, he was a member of the short-lived American Party. 1848 Lake was elected to the Senate from Mississippi. In the congressional elections of 1854 he made the jump to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Democrats Wiley Pope Harris replaced on March 4, 1855. Because it did not re-elected in 1856, Lake was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857.
After retiring from Congress Lake again worked as a lawyer. From 1859 to 1861 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Mississippi. In 1861 he ran for the Congress of the Confederate States. During the election campaign, it came with a political opponent named Chambers in Hopefield, located across from Memphis on the west bank of the Mississippi, to a duel, in which William Lake was killed.