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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Anderson PILE
(1829-1889)
PILE, William Anderson, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Indianapolis, Ind.,
February 11, 1829; completed preparatory studies; studied theology
and became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church and a
member of the Missouri conference; during the Civil War entered the
Union Army; commissioned chaplain of the First Regiment, Missouri
Light Artillery, June 12, 1861; lieutenant colonel of the
Thirty-third Regiment, Missouri Infantry, September 5, 1862;
colonel December 23, 1862; brigadier general of Volunteers December
26, 1863; brevetted major general April 9, 1865; elected as a
Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869);
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
(Fortieth Congress); unsuccessful for reelection in 1868 to the
Forty-first Congress; Governor of New Mexico in 1869 and 1870;
Minister Resident to Venezuela from 1871 to 1874, when he resigned;
died in Monrovia, Calif., July 7, 1889; interment in Live Oak
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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