William McAleer

William McAleer (* January 6, 1838 in County Tyrone, United Kingdom, † April 19, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1901 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1851 came the born in what is now Northern Ireland William McAleer with his parents to Philadelphia, where he attended both public and private schools. Ten years later he became a partner bodies working in the flour trade company John McAleer & Sons, who operated his father and his brothers. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1871 and 1873 he was a member of the City Council of Philadelphia. He was also president of the organization Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, who took care of the immigrants to the United States. McAleer also belonged to the Board of Guardians of the Poor in 1873-1898, who campaigned for the needy. It was over time president of that body. In 1880 he became director of the Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia. Between 1886 and 1890 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1890 McAleer was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Vaux on March 4, 1891. After a re-election as an independent candidate, he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1985 two legislative sessions. In 1894 he was not re-elected. In 1896 he was re-elected as a Democrat in the second district of his state in Congress, where he Republican Frederick Halterman replaced on March 4, 1897 which was two years before become his successor. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1901 the House of Representatives. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. In 1900 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William McAleer took his previous activities on again. He died on April 19, 1912 in German Town, a suburb of Philadelphia.