William S. Kenyon (New York politician)

William Scheuneman Kenyon ( born December 13, 1820 Catskill, New York, † February 10, 1896 in Kingston, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1859 and 1861 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Scheuneman Kenyon was born about five and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Catskill. He attended a private academy in Catskill and the Kinderhook Academy. In 1842 he graduated from Rutgers College in New Brunswick (New Jersey). He studied law in Kingston. His admission to the bar he received in 1846 in Albany, and then began practicing in Kingston. He was a founder of the Ulster County Savings Bank and was for 44 years working as a trustee. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1858 for the 36th Congress Kenyon was in the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Fiero Russell on March 4, 1859. Since he gave up for reelection in 1860, he retired after March 3, 1861 from the Congress.

After his time Congress, he worked as a lawyer again. He took in 1872 and 1876 as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part. Between 1883 and 1889 he was a judge in Ulster County. He had for many years the chair of the Republican County Committee. On 10 February 1896 he died in Kingston and was then buried in the Rural Cemetery Wiltwyck.