William D. Vincent

William Davis Vincent ( * October 11, 1852 in Dresden, Tennessee, † February 28, 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1858 William Vincent came with his parents in the Riley County, Kansas. 1864 the family moved to Manhattan, where he attended the public schools and the State Agricultural College. Between 1872 and 1876, Vincent was on business in Manhattan. In 1878 he moved to Clay Center, where he conducted trade.

Politically, he was a member of the product derived from the short-lived Populist Party Farmer Association. In 1880 he was a town councilor in Clay Center. Between 1893 and 1894 he sat in the railroad committee of the State of Kansas. 1896 Vincent was selected in the fifth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1897 the succession of Republican William A. Calderhead, whom he had defeated in the election. By March 3, 1899 Vincent but could do only one term in Congress, which was dominated by the events of the Spanish-American War.

After the end of his time in Congress, Vincent returned to Clay Center, where he worked until his death in 1922 the hardware trade.