William Henry Koontz

William Henry Koontz ( born July 15, 1830 in Somerset, Pennsylvania, † July 4, 1911 ) was an American politician. Between 1866 and 1869 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Koontz attended preparatory schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1851 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Somerset working in his new profession. From 1853 to 1856 he was district attorney in Somerset County. Politically, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate. From 1861 to 1868 he was employed by the court administration in Somerset County.

In the congressional elections of 1864 the Democratic incumbent Alexander Hamilton Coffroth was again against William Koontz in the 16th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. Koontz but put against the outcome of the election opposition one. When this was granted, he could take up his new mandate on 18 July 1866. After a re-election he remained until March 3, 1869 Congress. In 1868 he gave up another candidacy. Since 1865, the work of Parliament was burdened by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. Also in Koontz ' time as a congressman was the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Koontz again practiced as a lawyer. He also worked as a consultant for the railway company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Between 1899 and 1902 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He died on July 4, 1911 in Somerset, where he was also buried.