William Lilly | |
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| 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) |
| 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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| Preceded by At-large: None | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's at-large congressional district 1893 alongside: Alexander McDowell | Succeeded by |