William H. Hinrichsen

William Henry Hinrichsen ( born May 27, 1850 in Franklin, Morgan County, Illinois, † December 18, 1907 in Alexander, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Hinrichsen attended the common schools and studied at the Illinois Industrial University, later the University of Illinois in Champaign after that. He then worked in the newspaper business. In the years 1871 and 1873 he was elected justice of the peace in his home; In 1874 he was appointed deputy sheriff in Morgan County. After that, he was there from 1880 to 1882 as Sheriff Chief of Police. Between 1882 and 1891 he held various cities of Illinois newspaper publisher and editor. Since 1891 he lived in Jacksonville. He also proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1891 he was employed as a Clerk in the management of the House of Representatives from Illinois. Between 1892 and 1896 he served as Secretary of State, the executive officers of the State Government. In the years 1895 and 1896 he was chairman of his party in Illinois; In July 1896 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Hinrichsen was in the 16th electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John took I. Rinaker on March 4, 1897. Until March 3, 1899, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. According to the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, William Hinrichsen withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked on literary matters. He died on 18 December 1907 in Alexander and was buried in Jacksonville.