William Lilly
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania
In office March 4, 1893 – December 1, 1893
Preceded by	No at-large districts in Pennsylvania in52nd Congress
Succeeded by	Galusha A. Grow
Constituency	at-large district
Personal details
Born	(1821-06-03)June 3, 1821 Penn Yan, New York, U.S.
Died	December 1, 1893(1893-12-01) (aged 72) Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting place	City Cemetery inMauch Chunk, Pennsylvania
Political party	Republican

William Lilly (June 3, 1821 – December 1, 1893) served briefly as aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania in 1893.

Born inPenn Yan, New York, on June 3, 1821, Lilly moved toCarbon County, Pennsylvania, in 1838, and became involved in the mining ofanthracitecoal.

He was subsequently elected as colonel of one of the militia regiments of theLehigh Valley and then was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.

ADemocratic member of thePennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1850 and 1851, he switched to the Republican Party in 1862, and was appointed as a delegate to sixRepublican National Conventions. He was then appointed as a delegate at large to the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1872 and 1873.

Lilly was later elected as a Republican to theFifty-third Congress and served in that capacity until his death in 1893.

Lilly died inMauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, on December 1, 1893, and was interred in the City Cemetery.

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