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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Farrand PROSSER
(1834-1911)
PROSSER, William Farrand,
a Representative from Tennessee; born in Williamsport, Lycoming
County, Pa., on March 16, 1834; received a limited schooling;
taught school; studied law but never practiced; moved to California
in 1854; engaged in mining; returned to Pennsylvania in 1861;
entered the Union Army November 30, 1861, promoted through the
ranks to colonel, and served throughout the Civil War; after the
war settled on a farm near Nashville, Tenn.; elected to the State
house of representatives, 1867-1869; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress;
postmaster of Nashville 1872-1875; a director of the Tennessee,
Edgefield & Kentucky Railroad; appointed in 1872 as one of the
State commissioners to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in
1876 and sent on a special mission in 1873 to assist in arranging
participation of European countries in the exposition; published
the Nashville Republican for several years; appointed by President
Hayes in 1879 as special agent of the Interior Department for
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and moved to Washington in the same
year; delegate to the first State constitutional convention of
Washington; chairman of the State harbor line commission; mayor of
North Yakima; city treasurer of Seattle 1908-1910; died in Seattle,
Wash., September 23, 1911; interment in Lakeview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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