William Lounsbery

William Lounsbery ( born December 25, 1831 in Stone Ridge, New York, † November 8, 1905 in Kingston, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Lounsbery graduated in 1851 Rutgers College in New Brunswick ( New Jersey). He attended the Faculty of Law at New York University in Albany. His admission to the bar he received in 1853 and then began to practice. During the Civil War he served in the 20th Regiment of the National Guard of New York, where in his three months' service, he held the rank of First Lieutenant. He sat 1868 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1878 and 1880 he was mayor in Kingston. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1878 for the 46th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen L. Mayham on March 4, 1879. He retired after the March 3, 1881 out of the Congress. On November 8, 1905, he died in Kingston and was then buried in the Rural Cemetery Wiltwyck.