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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaOATES, William Calvin
(1835—1910)
OATES, William Calvin, a Representative from Alabama; born at Oates Cross Roads, near Troy, Pike County, Ala., November 30, 1835; pursued elementary studies at home and attended an academy at Lawrenceville, Ala.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced in Abbeville, Ala., from 1859 to 1861; during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as captain of Company G, Fifteenth Regiment, Alabama Infantry, in July 1861; appointed colonel in the Provisional Army of the Confederacy May 1, 1863; resumed the practice of law in Abbeville in 1865; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868; member of the State house of representatives 1870-1872; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for Governor in 1872; member of the State constitutional convention in 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, until November 5, 1894, when he resigned, having been elected Governor; chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-eighth through Fiftieth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1897; Governor of Alabama 1894-1896; brigadier general of Volunteers in the Spanish-American War and stationed at Camp Meade, Pa.; resumed the practice of law; died in Montgomery, Ala., September 9, 1910; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Oates, William Calvin. Against the Appropriation for the Hennepin Canal
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
———. Backbone Railroad Land Grant
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
———. Contested election
. Washington: N.p., 1888.
———. Fitz-John Porter
. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
———. Mississippi Overflow. A Plea for the Constitution
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1884.
———. Speech of Governor William C. Oates of Alabama, delivered at Chattanooga, Tenn., September 20th, 1895, on the battles of Chichamauga and Chattanooga
. Montgomery, Ala.: Roemer Printing Company, 1895.
———. Speeches of William C. Oates, a Delegate from the State-at-large, in the Constitutional Convention of Alabama held at Montgomery in 1901
. [Montgomery ?: N.p., 1903?]
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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