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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Medcalf KINSEY
(1846-1931)
KINSEY, William Medcalf, a
Representative from Missouri; born in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson
County, Ohio, October 28, 1846; attended Hopedale Academy, Harrison
County, Ohio, and Monmouth College, Illinois; became a resident of
Muscatine County, Iowa, in 1863; studied law at the University of
Iowa in Iowa City in 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and
commenced practice in Muscatine County, Iowa, the same year; moved
to St. Louis, Mo., in 1875 and engaged in the practice of law;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4,
1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890
to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in St.
Louis, Mo.; judge of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis
1904-1917; during the First World War was chairman of the draft
examining board in Carondelet; resumed the practice of his
profession; died in St. Louis, Mo., June 20, 1931; interment in
Sunset Hill Burial Park, St. Louis County, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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