William Hepburn Armstrong

William Hepburn Armstrong ( born September 7, 1824 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, † May 14, 1919 in Wilmington, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Armstrong attended the public schools of his home and then to 1847 the Princeton College. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Williamsport in this profession. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the years 1860 and 1861 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1862 he refused the position offered to him of the presiding judge in the 26th Judicial District of the State of.

In the congressional elections of 1868 Armstrong was in the 18th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen Fowler Wilson on March 4, 1869. Since he has not been confirmed in 1870, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1871.

President Ulysses S. Grant offered him after his time as a congressman the office of Indian Commissioner, but which Armstrong refused. Between 1882 and 1885 he was instead railway commissioner. Otherwise he practiced until 1898 in Washington and Philadelphia as a lawyer; then he withdrew into retirement. He moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where he died on 14 May 1919 at the age of 94 years.