William F. McNagny

William Forgy McNagny ( born April 19, 1850 in Tallmadge, Ohio; † August 24 in Columbia City, Indiana, 1923 ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William McNagny attended the public schools in Whitley County, where he had already drawn in his early teens. He also went to the Springfield Academy. He then worked as a teacher. For six years he helped his father in the management of his farm. Between 1868 and 1875 McNagny was for the Pennsylvania Railroad station master in Larwill. After a subsequent law studies and his 1875 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to work in Columbia City in this profession.

Politically McNagny member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was in the twelfth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles McClellan on March 3, 1893. Since he Republican Jacob D. Leighty defeated in 1894, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1895.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives to McNagny withdrew from politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Columbia City, where he died on 24 August 1923.