William Claiborne Owens

William Claiborne Owens (* October 17, 1849 in Georgetown, Kentucky; † November 18, 1925 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Owens attended the common schools and the Kentucky Wesleyan College in Millersburg. This is followed by a study at the Transylvania University in Lexington joined. After a subsequent law degree at Columbia University in New York City and his 1872 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Georgetown in this profession. Between 1874 and 1877 Owens was prosecutor in Scott County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1877 to 1887 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the years 1882 and 1883 he served as its president. In 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the Ex - President Grover Cleveland once again as presidential candidate of the party.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Owens was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Campbell Preston Breckinridge on March 4, 1895. Since he resigned in 1896 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1897. In 1896, Owens joined the Republican Party. During the Spanish- American War, he was a major in a volunteer unit from Kentucky. In 1900 he moved to Louisville, where he practiced as a lawyer again. There he died on 18 November 1925. He was buried in Georgetown.