William Lilly (congressman)

William Lilly ( born June 3, 1821 in Penn Yan, New York, † December 1, 1893 in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In 1893 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

About the youth and education of William Lilly, nothing is handed down. In 1838 he moved to the Carbon County in Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in coal mining. He was also a member of the local state militia, in which he rose in the course of time to brigadier general. Politically, he joined the first at the Democratic Party. In the years 1850 and 1851 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1862 he switched to the Republicans. In the following decades, he participated in six Republican National Convention as a delegate. In the years 1872 and 1873 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the State of Pennsylvania. His main job was still active in the mining and coal business.

In the congressional elections of 1892, Lilly was in the then newly established state-wide 29 electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1893. This he was able to exercise until his death on 1 December of the same year.