William Cox Ellis

William Cox Ellis ( born May 5, 1787 Muncy, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, † December 13, 1871 ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1825 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Willliam Ellis attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1803, the Friends' School near Pennsdale. Between 1803 and 1810 he was deputy director of land surveying authority ( Deputy Surveyor General ); 1810 to 1818 he worked for the Union and Northumberland County Bank as a cashier. After studying law and his 1817 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Muncy. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1820 Ellis was in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he effectively became the successor of John Murray on March 4, 1821. But this mandate, he laid her down before the inaugural session of the Parliament. Then he applied unsuccessfully to the same mandate. The background of this action are not known.

In the 1822 elections Ellis was selected in the ninth district of his state in Congress, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. Until March 3, 1825, he was able to complete a full term. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson. In the years 1825 and 1826 was William Ellis MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1856 he joined the Republican Party, founded two years earlier. Otherwise, he worked again as a lawyer. He died on 13 December 1871 in his home town of Muncy.