William Joseph Deboe

William Joseph Deboe (* June 30, 1849 in Crittenden County, Kentucky, † June 15 1927 in Marion, Kentucky ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate.

William Joseph Deboe attended Ewing College in Illinois, where he studied law and medicine. He graduated afterwards at the medical faculty of the University of Louisville and practiced in a row for several years as a doctor before he freshened his law studies and was admitted to the bar in 1889. Then he began to work in Marion in Crittenden County as a lawyer. In his native county he was also a school inspector ( superintendent of schools ).

His first bid for political office, failed in 1892 when he was not elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After 1893 Deboe then sat in the Senate of Kentucky. Successful 1896 was his second candidacy for Congress when he was elected to one of the two U.S. Senators for Kentucky. He remained on 4 March 1897 to 3 March 1903 and entered the Senate after one term not to seek re-election. During his time in Washington, he was chairman of two Senate committees: the Committee on Indian depredations and the Committee to Establish the University of the United States.

1912 was Deboe Kentucky delegate to Republican National Convention. From 1923 to 1927 he served as postmaster of Marion, where he also died.