William Henry Hines (March 15, 1856 – January 17, 1914) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for

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from 1893 to 1895.

Early life and education

William Henry Hines was born in

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, New York. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1865 with his parents, who settled in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools in Brooklyn and

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. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in

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, in 1881.

Career

Hines was appointed town clerk of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, in 1876 and elected assessor in 1877. He served as a National Greenback member of the

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for Lackawanna and Luzerne County from 1879 to 1880 and as a Democratic member from 1883 to 1884. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 21st district from 1888 to 1892. Hines was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1894. He worked as president of the Pocono Water Company and had unsuccessful campaigns for judge in the

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for Luzerne County in 1911 and 1913. He resumed the practice of law in Wilkes-Barre and died there in 1914.

References

Sources

The Political Graveyard
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