William D. Boies

William Dayton Boies ( born January 3, 1857 Boone County, Illinois, † May 31, 1932 in Sheldon, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1929 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Boies was born on a farm in Boone County in Illinois. In 1873 he moved with his parents in the Buchanan County, Iowa. There and in Belvidere (Illinois ), he attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and its made ​​in 1881 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Sanborn (Iowa). In 1887 he moved his practice and to Sheldon. Between 1900 and 1912 he was a member in the Board of Education. Between 1913 and 1918, Boies worked as a judge in Iowa.

Politically, Boies member of the Republican Party. In 1918 he became the eleventh electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1919, the successor of George Cromwell Scott. After four elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1929 five contiguous legislatures. At this time there were the 18th and the 19th Amendment, discussed and adopted. It was about the Prohibition law, and women's suffrage. In 1926, William Boies was a federal judge from Illinois, also involved in the impeachment proceedings against George W. English.

In 1928, William Boies opted not to run again. After he retired from politics. He died in May 1932 in Sheldon, and was also buried there.