William Randolph Steele

William Randolph Steele ( born July 24, 1842 in New York City; † November 30, 1901 in Deadwood, South Dakota ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented as a delegate the Wyoming Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

William Steele studied for his school law and has worked after qualifying as a lawyer in this profession. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army. When the war ended he was brevet lieutenant colonel. In 1869, William Steele moved to Cheyenne in Wyoming Territory, where he worked as a lawyer.

Political career

Steele was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1871 and 1873 he was a member of the territorial governing council in his new home. In the congressional elections of 1872, he was elected as the successor to William Theopilus Jones in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he represented between 4 March 1873, the March 3, 1877 for two terms as a delegate to the Wyoming Territory 's interests. Since Wyoming was still not an official state of the United States, Steele had no vote in Congress.

Further CV

After he was re-elected in 1876, never in the congressional elections of the year, William Steele moved to Deadwood, South Dakota. There he worked as a lawyer. From 1894 to 1896 he was mayor of this place, where he died in 1901.