William S. Moorhead

William Singer Moorhead ( born April 8, 1923 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † August 3, 1987 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1981 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Moorhead attended Shadyside Academy and thereafter until 1941, the Phillips Academy. He then studied at Yale University. In the years 1943 to 1946, he served during World War II in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and his 1949 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Pittsburgh in this profession. From 1954 to 1957 he was an Assistant City Solicitor to urban lawyers the city of Pittsburgh; 1956 to 1958 he was responsible for the planning authority ( Housing Authority ) in Allegheny County operates.

Politically, Moorhead member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1958, he was the 28th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Herman P. Eberharter on January 3, 1959. After ten re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1981 eleven legislative periods. Since 1963 he represented there as a successor to George M. Rhodes the 14th district of his state. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the culmination and final phase of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and in 1974, the Watergate affair.

In 1980, William Moorehaed renounced another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced in the federal capital Washington as a lawyer. He died on August 3, 1987 in Baltimore.