William W. Kingsbury

William Wallace Kingsbury ( born June 4, 1828 in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, † April 17, 1892 in Tarpon Springs, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1858 he represented the Minnesota Territory as a delegate in the House of Representatives of the United States.

Career

William Kingsbury attended the public schools of his home. After that he worked as a store clerk and as a surveyor. In 1852 he moved to enedione in the former Minnesota Territory. There he became politically active as a member of the Democratic Party.

1857 Kingsbury was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives. In the same year he participated in the Constituent Assembly for the future state of Minnesota as a delegate. In the congressional elections of 1856 he was a delegate of its territory to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1857, the successor of Henry Mower Rice. After the State of Minnesota was created from a part of its territory, his term of office ended on 11 May 1858. During his short time in Congress he had as a delegate there no voting rights. But he saw the heated debate surrounding the issue of slavery prior to the Civil War.

At the first regular congressional elections of the new State of Minnesota Kingsbury renounced own candidacy. In 1865 he returned to his hometown back in Towanda Pennsylvania. There he was active in the insurance industry and the real estate industry. Later, he spent three years as Commission Merchant in Baltimore (Maryland). In 1887 Kingsbury moved to Tarpon Springs in Florida. There he was engaged in trade and real estate business. William Kingsbury died on April 17, 1892, in his new hometown.