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William Walker Foulkrod (November 22, 1846 – November 13, 1910) was a
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member of the
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from
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.


Biography

William Walker Foulkrod was born in Frankford, then a borough outside
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. He was engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business and the manufacture of hosiery. He was the first president of the Philadelphia Trades League, and interested in plans for the improvement of the
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and Channel. He graduated from
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in 1869 with a bachelor's degree, and earned a master's degree from
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in 1873. He was married to Mary Clara Young (Sep. 22, 1846 in
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- Aug. 2, 1921 in
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) from 1871 to his death in 1910. Foulkrod was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served until his death in Frankford. He had been an unsuccessful candidate for reelection just a few days before. He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.


See also

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Sources


William W. Foulkrod
at ''The Political Graveyard'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Foulkrod, William W. 1846 births 1910 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators