William Heilman

William Heilman ( born October 11, 1824 in Albigensian, Grand Duchy of Hesse, † September 22, 1890 in Evansville, Indiana ) was an American politician of German origin. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1843 came the born in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate William Heilman from his native Germany to the United States, where he settled on a farm in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. He later moved into the local town of Evansville, where he worked for a craft business. Over the years he worked his way up to the head of a cotton spinning up. Heilman 1847, a company that manufactured drill. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1852 and 1865 he sat on the city council of Evansville. In the 1850s he joined the Republican Party. From 1870 to 1876 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1876, he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Candidate. Between 1876 and 1879 Heilman was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Heilman was the first electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benoni S. Fuller on March 4, 1879. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. In 1882 he was not re-elected. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Heilman took his previous activities on again. He died on September 22, 1890 in Evansville, where he was also buried.