William Pitt Lynde

William Pitt Lynde ( born December 16, 1817 in Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, † December 18, 1885 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1848 and 1849, and again from 1875 to 1879, he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Lynde attended the Hamilton Academy and Hamilton College and then studied until 1838 at Yale College. After a subsequent law degree from New York University and Harvard University, he was admitted to the bar in 1841. In the same year he moved to Milwaukee. In 1844, Lynde Attorney General in Wisconsin Territory. A year later he became Attorney General in the same territory.

Politically, Lynde member of the Democratic Party. After Wisconsin's accession to the Union, he was the first constituency of the new state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 5 January 1848. Since he has not been confirmed at the regular congressional elections of 1848, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1849.

In 1849, William Lynde applied unsuccessfully for the post of judge at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. In 1860 he was elected mayor of the city of Milwaukee. In 1866 he became a deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly; 1869-1870 he was in the state Senate. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was elected again in the U.S. House of Representatives in the fourth district of Wisconsin. There he took over from the March 4, 1875 Alexander Mitchell. After a re-election in 1876 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two other legislative periods. Since 1877 he was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditure on state property. In 1876, he led the impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap.

For the elections of 1878 William Lynde opted not to run again. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement. He died on December 18, 1885 in Milwaukee.

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