William Adam Piper

William Adam Piper ( born May 21, 1826 at Franklin County, Pennsylvania, † August 5, 1899 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Piper attended the public schools of his home. He then moved to St. Louis in Missouri. During the Mexican-American War, he served in the years 1846 and 1847 in an artillery unit from Missouri. During the Gold Rush, he moved in 1848 to California, where he settled in San Francisco and worked in the trade. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Piper was the first electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Clayton on March 4, 1875. Since he has not been confirmed in 1876, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Piper took his previous activities in the commercial again. He died on August 5, 1899 in San Francisco, where he was also buried.

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