William Everett

William Everett ( born October 10, 1839 in Watertown, Massachusetts, † February 16, 1910 in Quincy, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Everett was the son of Governor Edward Everett (1794-1865), who also represented the state of Massachusetts in both chambers of Congress. He attended the public schools in Cambridge and Boston and then studied until 1859 at Harvard University. He then went to England where he studied at the University of Cambridge until 1863. After studying law at Harvard he was admitted to the bar in 1865. After Everett completed a study of theology. In 1872 he was ordained as a priest. From 1870 to 1873 he was curator of Harvard University. In the following years until 1877 he taught Latin and the tray from 1878 to 1893, he led the Adams Academy in Quincy.

Politically, Everett was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1893 he was at a by-election for the seventh seat of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on April 25, 1893. Since he did not run in 1894, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1895. In 1897 he competed as a candidate of the National Democratic Party unsuccessfully for the office of the governor of Massachusetts. In the meantime, he again took over the management of the Adams Academy. He died on February 16, 1910 in Quincy.