William James O'Brien (May 28, 1836 – November 13, 1905) was a

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from the third district of

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, serving two terms from 1873 until 1877. Born in

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, O'Brien attended the common schools and pursued classical studies in the old St. Mary's College of Baltimore. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858, commencing practice in Baltimore. He was elected as a

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to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1873, until March 3, 1877, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1876. After Congress, O'Brien resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, and was appointed in 1901 and elected in 1903 as judge of the orphans' court of Baltimore, serving in that capacity until his death in Baltimore in 1905. He is interred in Bonnie Brae Cemetery.

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1836 births 1905 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland 19th-century American politicians {{Maryland-politician-stub