William H. Wadsworth

William Henry Wadsworth ( born July 4, 1821 in Maysville, Kentucky, † April 2, 1893 ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1865, and again 1885-1887, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wadsworth attended both public and private schools. Then he studied until 1841 at Augusta College in Bracken County. After a subsequent law degree in 1844 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Maysville to work in this profession. At the same time he began a political career. From 1853 to 1856 he was a member of the Senate from Kentucky. In the presidential election of 1860 he was an elector for the Constitutional Union Party.

In the congressional elections of 1860 he became a Unionist in the ninth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Laban T. Moore on March 4, 1861. After a re-election in 1862 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1865 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Civil War. At the same time took Wadsworth as a colonel in the army of the Union at least intermittently active part in the war. He was on the staff of General Nelson.

In 1864 Wadsworth gave up another run for Congress. In 1869 he was sent by President Ulysses S. Grant as a negotiator to Mexico. There he was involved in the settlement of mutual claims. During this time Wadsworth was a member of the Republican Party. In the elections of 1884 he was re-elected as its candidate in the ninth district of Kentucky in Congress. There he took over from the March 4, 1885 William Wirt Culbertson. Since he did not run in 1886, he could spend up to March 3, 1887 just another term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

After retiring from Congress Wadsworth practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 2 April 1893 in his birthplace of Maysville.