William S. Cowherd

William Strother Cowherd (* September 1, 1860 in Lee 's Summit, Missouri, † June 20, 1915 in Pasadena, California ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1905 he represented the State of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Cowherd attended the common schools and then studied until 1881 at the University of Missouri in Columbia literature. After studying law at the same university and his 1882 was admitted as a lawyer in Kansas City, he began to work in this profession. Between 1885 and 1889, Cowherd was deputy district attorney in the local Jackson County. In 1890 he worked as a lawyer for the city council of Kansas City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1892 to 1893 he served as mayor of Kansas City.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Cowherd was in the fifth electoral district of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert T. Van Horn on March 4, 1897. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1905 four legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. In 1904, Cowherd was defeated by Republican Edgar C. Ellis.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Cowherd again practiced as a lawyer in Kansas City. In 1908, he ran for governor of Missouri, but lost with 48:50 percent of the vote against Republican Herbert S. Hadley. Then he moved to Pasadena, California, where he worked as a lawyer. He is also passed on 20 June 1915. He was buried in his hometown of Lee 's Summit.