William Wall (New York)

William Wall ( born March 20, 1800, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † April 20, 1872 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Wall received a limited education. He learned the craft of rope making and then worked as a journeyman. Wall was the manufacturer for ropes. In 1822 he moved to Kings County. In the following years he was there as a trustee, Commissioner of Highways, Town Supervisor, member of the Board of Finance and Commissioner of Waterworks of Williamsburg (now a part of New York City) is active. In 1853 he became mayor of Williamsburg. Wall was one of the founders and for many years president of the Williamsburg Savings Bank and one of the founders of the Williamsburg City Bank (later the First National Bank) and the Williambsburg Dispensary.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1860 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William B. Maclay March 4, 1861. Since he gave up for reelection in 1862, he retired after March 3, 1863 from the Congress.

Then he took in 1866 as a delegate part in the Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia. He died on April 20, 1872 in Brooklyn and was buried there on the Green-Wood Cemetery.