William Shadrach Knox

William Shadrach Knox ( born September 10, 1843 in Killingly, Connecticut; † September 21, 1914 in Lawrence, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1903 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1852, William Knox moved with his parents to Lawrence, where he attended the public schools. After he graduated from Amherst College. After a subsequent law degree in 1866 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to Lawrence to work in this profession. Between 1875 and 1890 he was several times the legal representatives of this city. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1874 and 1875 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1894 Knox was in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Moses T. Stevens on March 4, 1895. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 four legislative sessions. He was chairman of the Committee for the administration of the American territories. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In 1902, Knox gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was president of the Arlington National Bank of Lawrence. He died on September 21, 1914 in Lawrence.