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William Walton Griest (September 22, 1858 – December 5, 1929) was a
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member of the
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Biography

William W. Griest was born in
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. He graduated from the
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in 1876. He was engaged in teaching, and was a member of the city school board of
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, for twenty-four years. He was the director and an incorporator of the Pennsylvania Public School Memorial Association. From 1882 to 1888, he was engaged in newspaper work as editor of the ''Inquirer'', Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He served as chief clerk in the county commissioner's office. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Tax Commission, and a delegate to several Republican State conventions and to every
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. He was the
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from 1899 to 1903. He served as a member of the State sinking fund commission and of the board of pardons. He also served as president of lighting and street railway companies from 1903 to 1927. Griest was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served until his death at
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. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads during the Sixty-eighth through the Seventieth Congresses. He was laid to rest at
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in Lancaster. The
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in downtown Lancaster is named in his honor.


See also

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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49) There are several lists of United States Congress members who died in office. These include: * List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–1949) *List o ...


Sources

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The Political Graveyard
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Griest, William W. Politicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Schoolteachers from Pennsylvania 1858 births 1929 deaths Secretaries of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Millersville University of Pennsylvania alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Journalists from Pennsylvania 19th-century American newspaper editors 19th-century American politicians 20th-century American politicians Burials at Woodward Hill Cemetery