William D. Bynum

William Dallas Bynum (* June 26, 1846 in Newberry, Greene County, Indiana, † October 21, 1927 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1895 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Bynum attended the common schools and then studied until 1869 at Indiana University in Bloomington. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1872 admitted to the bar he began in Washington, the capital of Daviess County, to work in his new profession. By 1875 he was legal representatives of this city; 1875 to 1879 he was mayor there. Since 1880, Bynum was living in Indianapolis.

Politically, Bynum was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1881 and 1885 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana, which he was president in 1885. In the congressional elections of 1884 he was in the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William E. English on March 4, 1885. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 five legislative sessions. He fell on May 17, 1890, when he was reprimanded by the conference organizers because of its inadequate expression. In 1896, William Bynum has not been confirmed.

Bynum was within the Democratic Party to the wing, who stood up for the gold standard of currency and briefly seceded as the National Democratic Party. Between 1896 and 1898 he held the chair. Even after the end of his time as a congressman, he remained in the federal capital. Between 1900 and 1906 he was member of a commission to revise the federal criminal laws. Then he withdrew into retirement. William Bynum died on October 21, 1927 in Indianapolis.