William S. Mesick

William Smith Mesick ( born August 26, 1856 in Newark, New York, † December 1, 1942 in Petoskey, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Mesick attended the public schools in Kalamazoo (Michigan) and then a trade school. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1881 admitted to the bar he began in Mancelona to work in his new profession. Mesick was a prosecutor in Antrim County for a term of office.

Politically, Mesick member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Avery on March 4, 1897. After a re-election in 1898 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1901 two legislative sessions. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. Since 1899 William Mesick was chairman of the third election committee ( Committee on Elections No.. 3).

In 1900, he was not nominated by his party for re-election. He subsequently worked as a lawyer in Mancelona. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm after Petoskey, where he died on 1 December 1942.

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