William Albin Young

William Albin Young ( born May 17, 1860 in Norfolk, Virginia; † March 12, 1928 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1900 he represented two times the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Young attended the common schools and St. Mary's Academy in Norfolk. Then he began to study law, but he gave up again without a degree. In the following years he worked in the trade. He also spent six years as an employee of the court administration in Norfolk. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In June 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, at the Grover Cleveland was nominated for the third consecutive year as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Young was in the second electoral district of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of David Gardiner Tyler on March 4, 1897. This election result was challenged by his rival candidate Richard Alsop Wise. As this was Objection, Young was forced to cede to Wise, who finished the opened legislature until March 3, 1899 from his position on 26 April 1898. In 1898, William Young was re-elected against Wise in the Congress, this time against the election lodged an objection. This time, his veto was upheld. Until the promulgation of this Decision, William Young was able to officiate between 4 March 1899 to 12 May 1900 as a congressman.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Young worked in the real estate industry in Norfolk, where he died on 12 March 1928.