William Kimmel

William Kimmel ( born August 15, 1812 in Baltimore, Maryland, † December 28, 1886 ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Kimmel attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Baltimore in this profession. He was also engaged in farming. At the same time he went into the railway business. He was regional director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Union Railroad Co. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1862 and 1866 he was a member of the State Board of his party. In August 1864 Kimmel was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1866 to 1871 Kimmel was a member of the Senate of Maryland. After that, he was until 1873 one of the directors of the company Canton Co.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Kimmel was the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William J. O'Brien on March 4, 1877. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Kimmel practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 28 December 1886 in his hometown of Baltimore, where he was also buried.