William H. Calkins

William Henry Calkins (February 18, 1842 – January 29, 1894) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

William H. Calkins.

Born in Pike County, Ohio, Calkins studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced. During the Civil War served in the Union Army from May 1861 to December 1865, except three months in 1863, attached to the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry. Took up his residence in La Porte, Indiana. State's attorney for the ninth Indiana judicial circuit 1866-1870. He served as member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1871.

Calkins was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to October 20, 1884, when he resigned. He served as chairman of the Committee on Elections (Forty-seventh Congress). He moved to Tacoma, Washington, and resumed the practice of law. He was appointed United States associate justice of the Territory of Washington in April 1889 and served until November 11, 1889, when the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union. He died in Tacoma, Washington, on January 29, 1894. He was interred in Tacoma Cemetery.

References

  • United States Congress. "William H. Calkins (id: C000048)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Albert G. Porter
Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana
1884
Succeeded by
Alvin Peterson Hovey
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
William S. Haymond
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 10th congressional district

March 4, 1877 March 3, 1881
Succeeded by
Mark L. De Motte
Preceded by
John H. Baker
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 13th congressional district

March 4, 1881 October 20, 1884
Succeeded by
Benjamin F. Shively
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