William Samuel Booze

William Samuel Booze ( born January 9, 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland, † December 6, 1933 in Wilmington, Delaware ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Booze attended the common schools and the Baltimore City College, which he completed in 1879. After a subsequent medical studies at the University of Maryland and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and his 1882 was admitted as a doctor, he started working in Baltimore in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1894 he was a candidate, despite an election opposition, yet unsuccessfully for Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Booze was the third electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Harry Welles Rusk on March 4, 1897. Since he resigned in 1898 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899. This was marked by the events of the Spanish-American War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Booze worked in the banking sector and the stock market. From 1915 he practiced as a doctor again. In 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions respective upon which Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were later nominated as a presidential candidate. Booze William died on 6 December 1933 on the way back from a trip to South America in Wilmington and was buried in Baltimore.

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