William M. Beckner

William Morgan Beckner ( born June 19, 1841 in Moorefield, Nicholas County, Kentucky, † March 14, 1910 in Winchester, Kentucky ) was an American politician. In the years 1894 and 1895 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Beckner attended the public schools of his home and then the edge and Richeson Seminary in Maysville. In addition, he also visited the Centre College in Danville. Later he worked on a farm and then as a clerk in a store in Bethel. In the meantime, he was also for two years as a teacher in Orangeburg and Maysville. After studying law and his 1864 was admitted to the bar he began in Winchester to work in this profession. In 1865, he served there as a municipal judge. Between 1866 and 1867 he worked as a prosecutor. In 1870 he was district judge in Clark County.

In 1867 Beckner founded the newspaper " Clark County Democrat ," which he edited for several years as the owner. In 1880 he was commissioner for the state prison. After that, he was from 1882 to 1884 railway officer of his state. In 1883 and 1885 he headed in Louisville a meeting at which representatives of all states educational issues discussed. In 1890 he was a delegate to a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky. Politically, Beckner member of the Democratic Party. In 1893 he was chairman of the regional Congress of Democrats in Kentucky. In the same year he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

After the death of Mr Marcus C. Lisle, he was at the due election for the seat tenth of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on December 3, 1894. Since he was not nominated for the elections of the year 1894 by his party for re-election, he could finish only the opened term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1895. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, William Beckner moved back out of politics. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 14, 1910 in Winchester.

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