William Darius Jamieson

William Darius Jamieson (* November 9, 1873 in Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, † November 18, 1949 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Jamieson attended the common schools and then the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Later he studied at the National University in the capital city Washington law. Between 1893 and 1916 he was in several cities out newspapers.

Politically Jamieson was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1907 and 1909 he sat in the Senate of Iowa. In 1908 he was selected in the eighth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William Peters Hepburn on March 4, 1909. Since he resigned in 1910 to further candidacy, he completed until March 3, 1911, only one term in Congress.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to Jamieson settled in Shenandoah (Iowa), where he was engaged in the newspaper business again. In 1915 and 1916 he was there and post holder. Between 1916 and 1920 he served as treasurer, member of the Democratic National Committee. In 1920 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part in San Francisco, was nominated for the James M. Cox as their presidential candidate. In the following years he practiced law in Washington, where he edited the weekly newspaper " Window Seat ". William Jamieson died on 18 November 1949 in Washington.

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