William Stenger

William Shearer Stenger ( born February 13, 1840 in Fort Loudoun, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, † March 29, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Stenger attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1858, the Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. After a subsequent law degree in 1860 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Chambersburg in this profession. He was also managing director of the newspaper Philadelphia Record. Between 1862 and 1871 he was district attorney in Franklin County.

Politically, Stenger joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the 18th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican Sobieski Ross took up on March 4, 1875, who moved into the 16th district. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. In 1878, he was not reconfirmed.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Stenger again practiced as a lawyer. Between 1883 and 1887 he served as Secretary of the Commonwealth, which corresponds to the Secretary of State in the other states, the executive officers of the state government of Pennsylvania. He died on 29 March 1918 in Philadelphia.