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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaWilliam HENDRICKS
(1782-1850)
Senate Years of Service:
1825-1829; 1829-1837Party: Adams; Anti-JacksonHENDRICKS, William, (uncle
of Thomas Andrews Hendricks), a Representative and a Senator from
Indiana; born in Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, Pa.,
November 12, 1782; attended the common schools and graduated from
Jefferson College (later Washington and Jefferson College),
Washington, Pa., in 1810; taught school 1810-1812; studied law in
Cincinnati, Ohio; admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to
Madison, Indiana Territory, in 1813; became a printer and owner of
the second printing press set up in the Territory; proprietor of
the Western Eagle; elected to the territorial legislature in 1813
and 1814, and was chosen speaker of the Assembly in 1814;
territorial printer; secretary of the first State constitutional
convention in 1816; upon the admission of Indiana as a State into
the Union was elected to the Fourteenth Congress; reelected to the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses and served from
December 11, 1816, until his resignation July 25, 1822, to become
Governor; Governor of Indiana 1822-1825, when he resigned to become
a Senator; elected to the United States Senate in 1824; reelected
in 1830 and served from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1837;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836; chairman, Committee
on Roads and Canals (Twenty-first through Twenty-fourth
Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Madison, Ind.; trustee
of Indiana University at Bloomington 1829-1840; died in Madison,
Ind., May 16, 1850; interment in Fairmount Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hill, Frederick. “William Hendricks’
Political Circulars to His Constituents: First Senatorial Term,
1826-1831.” Indiana Magazine of History 71 (June
1975): 124-80; Hill, Frederick. “William Hendricks’
Political Circulars to His Constituents: Second Senatorial Term,
1831-1837.” Indiana Magazine of History 71 (December
1975): 319-74.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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