William High Keim

William High Keim ( born June 13, 1813 near Reading, Pennsylvania, † May 18 1862 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In the years 1858 and 1859 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Keim was a nephew of Congressman George May Keim ( 1805-1861 ). He attended the Mount Airy Military School and later joined the state militia of Pennsylvania to Major General on. In 1848 he became mayor of the city of Reading. He was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

Following the resignation of Mr Jehu Glancy Jones germ was at the due election for the eighth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 7, 1858. Since he resigned in 1858 to further candidacy, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1859. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

Between 1860 and 1862 led William germ as Surveyor General, the Land Survey Authority of the State of Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he was from April to July 1861, Major General in the army of the Union. After he left the army for a few months. In December 1861 he returned to the army as a brigadier general. A few months later he fell ill with typhoid fever. He succumbed to the disease on May 18, 1862 in Harrisburg and was buried in Reading.