William Evans Arthur

William Evans Arthur ( born March 3 in 1825 in Cincinnati, Ohio, † May 18, 1897 in Covington, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1875 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth, William Arthur moved with his parents to Covington in Kentucky. There he enjoyed a private school education. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1850 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Covington. Between 1856 and 1862 he was a prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky.

Politically, Arthur member of the Democratic Party. In 1860 he was one of the electors in the presidential elections. He voted for John C. Breckinridge. From 1866 to 1868 Arthur acted as judges in the Ninth Judicial District. In the congressional elections of 1870 he was in the sixth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Laurens Jones on March 4, 1871. After a re-election in 1872 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1875 two legislative sessions.

In 1874 he gave up another candidacy. He then practiced as a lawyer first again. Between 1886 and 1893 he was a judge in the Twelfth Judicial District. Then he was up to his death returned to the bar.

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