William S. Holman

William Steele Holman ( born September 6, 1822 Aurora, Dearborn County, Indiana, † April 22, 1897 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1859 and 1897 he represented several times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Holman attended the common schools and Franklin College. After that, he was himself working for some years as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. From 1843 to 1846 he was a judge in a probate court; in the years 1847-1849 he worked as a prosecutor. After that, he was until 1856 a judge at the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana. In the following decades Holman was an active member of the Democratic Party, especially in politics. Already in 1850 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Indiana; 1851 to 1852 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives of that State.

In the congressional elections of 1858 Holman was selected in the fourth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James B. Foley on March 4, 1859. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1865 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the civil war since 1861. In 1864 Holman renounced his candidacy. Two years later he was re-elected in the fourth district in Congress, where he replaced John Hanson Farquhar on March 4, 1867, which was in 1865 became his successor. After four re- elections, he could spend up to 3 March 1877, five other legislatures in Congress. Since 1869 he represented there as a successor to Morton C. Hunter the third electoral district of his state. In the years 1867 and 1868 Holman experienced as congressman of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Republican Party, which culminated in a nearly failed in the U.S. Senate impeachment proceedings against the president.

From 1876 to 1877 William Holman was chairman of the Appropriations Committee. In the same legislative period he also led the Committee on public property. In 1878, Holman did not run for Congress. In the elections of 1880 he was elected again in the fourth district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Between March 4, 1881 and March 3, 1895 Holman graduated seven other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the years 1887-1889 he headed once again the Committee on public property. From 1891 to 1893 he was the successor of Joseph Gurney Cannon again Chairman of the Appropriations Committee; after which he headed until 1895 the Indian Committee.

1896 Holman has not been confirmed. Two years later he was elected again in the fourth district of Indiana, for the last time in Congress. His new legislative term began on March 4, 1897. Few weeks later, William Holman died in the capital Washington.

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