William Herod

William Herod ( born March 31, 1801 Bourbon County, Kentucky, † October 20, 1871 in Columbus, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Herod attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working at the Bracken County in this profession. He later moved to Columbus, Indiana, where he continued to practice as a lawyer. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In the years 1829 and 1830 and again in 1844 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana; 1831-1846 he was one of several times in the State Senate. Mid-1830s concluded Herod at the time, founded the Whig Party. Between 1833 and 1837 he was a prosecutor in Bartholomew County.

After the death of Mr George L. Kinnard he was in the overdue election for the sixth seat of Indiana as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 25 January 1837. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1839 Congress. In 1838 he was not confirmed. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Herod practiced as a lawyer again. In 1853 he was bailiff at the District Court in Bartholomew County. In the 1850s he became a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Otherwise he worked until his death on 20 October 1871 as a lawyer.