William A. Massey

William Alexander Massey ( born October 7, 1856 in Oakfield, Trumbull County, Ohio; † March 5, 1914 in Litchfield, Nevada ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Nevada in the U.S. Senate.

Life

William Massey was not yet ten years old when he left in 1865 with his parents Ohio. The family settled in Edgar County in Illinois, where the boy attended the public schools. Later he continued his education in Indiana on the Union Christian College, Merom, and the Asbury University in Greencastle continued. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Sullivan. In 1886 he moved to San Diego in California, before he settled in Nevada the following year. He prospected for mineral resources there and worked in the mining industry before he continued his legal ability in Elko.

Public offices

From 1892 to 1894 Massey practiced his first political office as a deputy in the Nevada Assembly. Between 1894 and 1896 he served as district attorney; From 1896, he was then judge on the Supreme Court of Nevada. From this post he resigned in 1902. After working in the episode again a few years back as a lawyer in Reno, William Massey of the late U.S. Senator George S. Nixon was appointed on 1 July 1912 by Governor Tasker Oddie successor.

Massey took over the chairmanship of the Senate mining committee. However, he remained only until January 29, 1913 in Congress, since he lost the election to Democrat Key Pittman. He subsequently worked as a lawyer again; he died in March 1914, during a train ride around the resort Litchfield and was buried in Reno.