William Lilly
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania
In office
March 4, 1893  December 1, 1893
Preceded byNo at-large districts in Pennsylvania in 52nd Congress
Succeeded byGalusha A. Grow
Constituencyat-large district
Personal details
Born(1821-06-03)June 3, 1821
Penn Yan, New York, U.S.
DiedDecember 1, 1893(1893-12-01) (aged 72)
Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeCity Cemetery in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania
Political partyRepublican

William Lilly (June 3, 1821 – December 1, 1893) served briefly as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania in 1893.

Formative years

Born in Penn Yan, New York, on June 3, 1821, Lilly moved to Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in 1838, and became involved in the mining of anthracite coal.

Military service

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

Career

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

Congress

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

Death and interment

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

See also

Sources

  • United States Congress. "William Lilly (id: L000312)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • The Political Graveyard
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