William R. Ellis

William Russell Ellis ( * April 23, 1850 in Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana; † January 18, 1915 in Portland, Oregon ) was an American politician ( Republican). Between 1893 and 1911 he represented twice the second electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1855 William Ellis moved with his parents in the Guthrie County, Iowa, where he attended the public schools. He then studied at the State Agricultural College in Ames. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Iowa, he was admitted to the bar in 1874. Then he started in Panora to work in his new profession. In Panora Ellis was also mayor for a term. After a move to Hamburg, also in Iowa, he also worked there as a lawyer and went into the newspaper business. In addition, he was for two years of legal representatives of this city. Between 1880 and 1881 he was mayor in Hamburg.

In 1884, Ellis moved to Heppner, Oregon. Between 1885 and 1886 he was School Board ( Superintendent ) in Morrow County and from 1886 to 1892 was Ellis District Attorney in the seventh judicial district of Oregon. In the congressional elections of 1892, he was elected in the then newly created second district of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was able to complete in 1899 three legislative periods between 4 March 1893 to 3 March. He has at times been chairman of the committee to monitor the expenditure of the Department of Justice and member of the committee dealing with questions irrigation in dry areas. 1898 Ellis sought to further candidacy, but was not set up by his party. The nomination instead went to Malcolm A. Moody.

Between 1900 and 1906 he was then District Judge. Since 1901, William Ellis was living in Pendleton. There he worked as a lawyer. In the congressional elections of the year 1906, Ellis was able to prevail in the primaries of his party and then regain his old seat in Congress. There he took over from John N. Williamson, who took over the seat in 1903 by Malcolm Moody. Between March 4, 1907, and March 3, 1911, he completed two further terms. In 1910 he was defeated in the primaries Walter Lafferty, who then won the actual election and Ellis replaced in Congress.

After the end of his service in Washington William Ellis again worked as a lawyer in Pendleton. In July 1914 he moved to Portland, where he died in January 1915.