William C. Wallace

William Copeland Wallace ( born May 21, 1856 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 4, 1901 in Warwick, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1889 and 1891 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Copeland Wallace was born about five years before the outbreak of civil war in Brooklyn. He graduated in 1873 at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, 1876 at Wesleyan University in Middletown (Connecticut) and 1878 at the Law Department of Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in New York City. He was 1880-1883 Deputy Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1894 he was appointed Judge Advocate General on the staff of Governor Levi P. Morton.

Politically, Wallace to the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1888 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen V. White on March 4, 1889. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1890, a defeat and retired after March 3, 1891 the Congress of. Then he took his work as a lawyer in Brooklyn back on, but also pursued extensive banking transactions. He died on 4 September 1901 in his summer home in Warwick and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.