William S. Reyburn

William Stuart Reyburn ( born December 17, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † July 25, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Reyburn was the son of Congressman John E. Reyburn. He attended the Hill School in Pottstown and then studied until 1904 at Yale University. After a subsequent law degree from the Georgetown University in Washington DC and his 1908 was admitted as a lawyer in Washington, he began to work in this profession. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In 1905, he traveled with a political delegation Japan, the Philippines and China. Between 1909 and 1911 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

After the death of Mr Joel Cook Reyburn was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the second seat of Pennsylvania, where he took up his new mandate on 23 May 1911. Since he did not run in 1912, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1913. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Reyburn again practiced as a lawyer. Later he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Aiken (South Carolina) and Black Hill on his estate in Connecticut. He died on 25 July 1946 in New Haven and was buried in Philadelphia.