William Wallace Phelps

William Wallace Phelps ( born June 1, 1826 at Oakland County, Michigan; † August 3, 1873 in Spring Lake, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1858 and 1859 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Phelps attended the public schools of his home. Then he studied until 1846 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. He also worked as a registrar for the land registry office in Red Wing at the former Minnesota Territory.

Politically, Phelps member of the Democratic Party. After the accession of Minnesota to the Union, he was in the second constituency of the new state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 11 May 1858. Until March 3, 1859, he finished in the Congress the current legislative period, which was determined by the heated debate surrounding the issue of slavery prior to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Phelps again worked as a lawyer in Red Wing. He died in August 1873 in Spring Lake (Michigan) and was buried in Red Wing.

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