William Henry Hines
State 1Pennsylvania
District 112th
Term start 1March 4, 1893
Term end 1March 3, 1895
Preceded 1George Washington Shonk
Succeeded 1John Leisenring
Office 2Member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 21st district
Term 21888-1892
Preceded 2Morgan B. Williams
Succeeded 2Clarence W. Kline
Office 3Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term 31879-1880
1883-1884
Birth dateMarch 15, 1856
Death dateJanuary 17, 1914 (aged 57)
Birth placeBrooklyn, New York, US
Death placeWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US
PartyDemocratic
National Greenback

William Henry Hines (March 15, 1856 – January 17, 1914) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district from 1893 to 1895.

Early life and education

William Henry Hines was born in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1865 with his parents, who settled in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools in Brooklyn and Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1881.

Career

Hines was appointed town clerk of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, in 1876 and elected assessor in 1877.

He served as a National Greenback member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives for Lackawanna and Luzerne County from 1879 to 1880 and as a Democratic member from 1883 to 1884.[1] He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 21st district from 1888 to 1892.[2] Hines was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1894.

He worked as president of the Pocono Water Company and had unsuccessful campaigns for judge in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Luzerne County in 1911 and 1913.[1]

He resumed the practice of law in Wilkes-Barre and died there in 1914.

References

  1. ^ "Pennsylvania House of Representatives - WILLIAM H. HINES Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Pennsylvania State Senate - William Henry Hines Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 4 April 2020.

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