William Watson McIntire (June 30, 1850 – March 30, 1912) was a U. S. Representative from

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Biography

McIntire was born in

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. As a child, he moved with his parents to

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. He attended public and private schools and learned the trade of machinist. In July 1872 he moved to

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. He received an appointment in the United States

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in 1874, remaining in this service until 1885, when he resigned. He attended Hagerstown Academy and graduated from the

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in Baltimore. He was admitted to the bar in Baltimore and elected as a

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to the city council of Baltimore in 1887 and 1888. In the campaign of 1895 he was treasurer of the Maryland Republican State and city committees. Prominent for many years in Republican politics, McIntire was elected as a Republican to the

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, serving from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1899. He was part of an all-Republican Congressional delegation elected that year from Maryland. He is generally credited with obtaining the first appropriation for a new Custom House in Baltimore and with defeating a bill to move the

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to a Northern city. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the

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. McIntire served as General Agent of the United States Life Insurance Company between 1905 and 1912. When General Peter Leary, Jr. died in 1911, he was strongly put forward to take his place on the Baltimore Sewerage Commission. Mayor

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appointed him, and the appointment was so popular that the City Council suspended its rules in order to confirm it unanimously. While still on the commission, he died on a boat in the

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, having been stricken by

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when fishing for pike alone."W. W. McIntire Dead.", ''

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'', April 1, 1912, p. 13. Friends brought him to shore, but he died late in the evening without having regained consciousness. His remains were brought to his city home the next day. He is buried in

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, Baltimore.

References

* 1850 births 1912 deaths Burials at Loudon Park Cemetery Politicians from Hagerstown, Maryland People from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland 19th-century American politicians {{Maryland-politician-stub