William Allen Northcott (28 January 1854 – 25 January 1917) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1905 he served two terms as
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois.
Life
William Northcott was born in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Murfreesboro is a city in and county seat of Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 152,769 according to the 2020 census, up from 108,755 residents certified in 2010. Murfreesboro is located in the Nashville metropol ...
. He studied law and practiced as an attorney. Between 1882 and 1892 he was the District Attorney in
Bond County, Illinois
Bond County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,725. Its county seat is Greenville.
Bond County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Bond Coun ...
. He joined the
Republican Party
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and in 1896 he was elected to the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. In this position he served two terms between 11 January 1897 and 9 January 1905 when his second term ended. In this function he was the deputy of the Governors
John Riley Tanner
John Riley Tanner (April 4, 1844 – May 23, 1901) was the 21st Governor of Illinois, from 1897 until 1901.
Tanner was the first governor in the country to be openly neutral in labor disputes, gaining national notoriety for his actions in a s ...
and his successor
Richard Yates Jr. In 1904 he was an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention. Between 1905 and 1914 Northcott was the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Illinois. He died on 25 January 1917 in
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay County, Missouri, Clay and Ray County, Missouri, Ray counties in the U.S. state of Missouri and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The population was 10,553 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. ...
and he was buried on the Oak Ridge Cemetery in
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...
.
See also
*
1900 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election
External links
*
The Political Graveyard
Literature
Proceedings of the Illinois State Bar Association, 1917, p. 139
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1854 births
1917 deaths
People from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
People from Bond County, Illinois
Illinois lawyers
Lieutenant Governors of Illinois
Illinois Republicans
19th-century American lawyers