William Wallace McCredie

William Wallace McCredie (* April 27, 1862 in Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, † May 10 1935 in Portland, Oregon ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood drew William McCredie with his parents on a farm near Manchester, Iowa. He then attended the public schools in Iowa and Cornell College in Mount Vernon. There, he graduated in 1885. Between 1885 and 1889 he worked as a teacher in Parkersburg. Then he started at the University of Iowa in Iowa City to study law, which he continued after moving to Portland, Oregon. After his made ​​in 1890 admitted to the bar he began in Vancouver to work in his new profession. From 1894 to 1896 was McCredie District Attorney in Clark County; 1904-1909 he served as a judge at the Court of Vancouver. Since 1904 he was co-owner of the Baseball Club of Portland.

Politically, McCredie member of the Republican Party. After the death of Francis W. Cushman, he was at the due election for the second parliamentary mandate from Washington to succeed him in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on November 2, 1909, its new mandate. Since he was not re-nominated for the elections of the year 1910 by his party, he could finish only the opened term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1911.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives was McCredie President of the Pacific Coast Baseball League. A post he held until 1921. Otherwise, he again worked as a lawyer. He died on May 10, 1935 in Portland.