{{Short description|American politician}} {{other people|William Ball}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | birth_name = William Lee Ball | name = William L. Ball | birth_date = {{birth date|1781|1|2}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1824|2|29|1781|1|2}} | birth_place = [[Lancaster County, Virginia|Lancaster County]], [[Virginia]], U.S. | office = Member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] from Virginia | term_start = March 4, 1817 | term_end = February 29, 1824 | predecessor = [[John Hungerford (congressman)|John Hungerford]] (9th)<br/>[[Burwell Bassett]] (13th) | successor = [[Andrew Stevenson]] (9th)<br/>[[John Taliaferro]] (13th) | constituency = {{ushr|VA|9|9th district}} (1817-23)<br/>{{ushr|VA|13|13th district}} (1823-24) | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]] | resting_place = [[Congressional Cemetery]] }}
'''William Lee Ball''' (January 2, 1781 – February 29, 1824) was a nineteenth-century politician from [[Virginia]] who served four terms in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] from 1817 to until his death in 1824.
==Biography== Born in [[Lancaster County, Virginia]], Ball received a liberal schooling as a child. He was a slave owner.<ref>{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-19|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-01-24}}</ref>
=== Political career === He was a member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] from 1805 to 1806 and again from 1810 to 1814. He served as a [[paymaster]] in the [[War of 1812]] and was assigned to the 92nd Virginia Regiment.<ref name="auto">Marquis Who's Who, Inc. ''Who Was Who in American History, the Military''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. P. 26 {{ISBN|0837932017}} {{OCLC|657162692}}</ref>
He later went on to serve in the [[Virginia State Senate]] from 1814 to 1817. He was elected a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] and later a [[Crawford Republican Party|Crawford Republican]] to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1816. He was reelected three times before dying in office in 1824.
=== Death and burial === He served in the House from 1817 until his death in [[Washington D.C.|Washington, D.C.]], on February 29, 1824.
He was interred in [[Congressional Cemetery]].<ref name="auto"/>
==See also== *[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)]]
==References == {{reflist}}
==External links== {{CongBio|B000103}} *{{Find a Grave|6984114}}
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