William Wirt Hastings

William Wirt Hastings ( born December 31, 1866 Benton County, Arkansas, † April 8, 1938 in Muskogee, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1921, and from 1923 to 1935, he was the second electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Hastings was born on a farm in Arkansas, close to the Indian Territory. Soon after, he moved with his parents in the present-day Delaware County ( Oklahoma), which was then part of the territory of the Cherokee Indians. Hastings visited the Cherokee Tribal School and then to 1884 the Cherokee Male Seminary at Tahlequah. Between 1884 and 1886, and again from 1889 to 1891 he was a teacher at various schools in the Cherokee. In between, he studied until 1889 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Jura. After his were made in the same year admitted to the bar, he worked alongside his teaching career in this profession in Tahlequah.

Between 1891 and 1895 William Hastings Attorney General for the Cherokee Nation was. From 1907 to 1914 he represented their interests at the federal level. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1912, he was both a delegate to the convention in Oklahoma as well as the Democratic National Convention, on the Woodrow Wilson was nominated as presidential candidate of the party.

1914 Hastings was elected in the Second District of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he entered on March 4, 1915, the successor of Dick Thompson Morgan, who moved into the eighth constituency. After he was re-elected in each of the years 1916 and 1918, he was initially able to attend three consecutive parliamentary terms in Congress until March 3, 1921. There he was at times Chairman of the Committee, which controlled the expenditure of the Ministry of Interior. In the elections of 1920 he was defeated Alice Mary Robertson of the Republican Party. However, he was able to regain his seat in the next elections in 1922 and successfully defended in the following five ballots. He exercised his mandate between 4 March 1923 and January 3, 1935 in six other legislative periods. In 1934, he opted not to run again.

After the end of his time in Congress, Hastings again worked as a lawyer. On January 22, 1936, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a day as head of the Cherokees to sign important documents. William Hastings died in 1938 and was buried in Tahlequah.