# William Lee Ball > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/William_Lee_Ball > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/William_Lee_Ball.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lee_Ball > Source revision: 1350857350 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American politician For other people named William Ball, see [William Ball (disambiguation)](/source/William_Ball_(disambiguation)). William L. Ball Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia In office March 4, 1817 – February 29, 1824 Preceded by John Hungerford (9th) Burwell Bassett (13th) Succeeded by Andrew Stevenson (9th) John Taliaferro (13th) Constituency 9th district (1817-23) 13th district (1823-24) Personal details Born William Lee Ball (1781-01-02)January 2, 1781 Lancaster County, Virginia, U.S. Died February 29, 1824(1824-02-29) (aged 43) Washington, D.C. Resting place Congressional Cemetery **William Lee Ball** (January 2, 1781 – February 29, 1824) was a nineteenth-century politician from [Virginia](/source/Virginia) who served four terms in the [U.S. House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from 1817 to until his death in 1824. ## Biography Born in [Lancaster County, Virginia](/source/Lancaster_County%2C_Virginia), Ball received a liberal schooling as a child. He was a slave owner.[1] ### Political career He was a member of the [Virginia House of Delegates](/source/Virginia_House_of_Delegates) from 1805 to 1806 and again from 1810 to 1814. He served as a [paymaster](/source/Paymaster) in the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812) and was assigned to the 92nd Virginia Regiment.[2] He later went on to serve in the [Virginia State Senate](/source/Virginia_State_Senate) from 1814 to 1817. He was elected a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)) and later a [Crawford Republican](/source/Crawford_Republican_Party) to the [United States House of Representatives](/source/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.](/source/Washington_D.C.), on February 29, 1824. He was interred in [Congressional Cemetery](/source/Congressional_Cemetery).[2] ## See also - [List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1790–1899)](/source/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_who_died_in_office_(1790%E2%80%931899)) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Congress slaveowners"](https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners), *The Washington Post*, January 19, 2022, retrieved January 24, 2022 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_2-1) Marquis Who's Who, Inc. *Who Was Who in American History, the Military*. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975. P. 26 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0837932017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0837932017) [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [657162692](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657162692) ## External links - United States Congress. ["William Lee Ball (id: B000103)"](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000103). *[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress)*. - [William Lee Ball](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6984114) at [Find a Grave](/source/Find_a_Grave) U.S. House of Representatives Preceded by John Hungerford Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1823 Succeeded by Andrew Stevenson Preceded by Burwell Bassett Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 13th congressional district March 4, 1823 – February 29, 1824 (obsolete district) Succeeded by John Taliaferro v t e United States representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district Bland Giles Eggleston Giles Thompson Love Hawes Hungerford Ball Stevenson Taylor Roane Hunter Chilton Pendleton Morton Strother Letcher Harris R. Bowen Terry Pridemore Richmond Fulkerson H. Bowen Trigg H. Bowen Buchanan Marshall Walker Rhea C. Slemp C. B. Slemp Peery Shaffer Flannagan Fugate Wampler Jennings Wampler Boucher Griffith All Virginia districts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · at-large v t e United States representatives from Virginia's 13th congressional district Griffin Clopton Marshall Tazewell Clopton Trigg Clark Burwell Bayly Bassett Parker Bassett Ball Taliaferro Chinn Patton Banks Smith Hopkins Fulton McMullen Hopkins Martin (inactive 1863–present) All Virginia districts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · at-large Authority control databases: People US Congress This article about a United States representative from Virginia is a stub. 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