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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam Halsted WILEY
(1842-1925)
WILEY, William Halsted, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in New York City July 10,
1842; attended private schools; was graduated from the College of
the City of New York in 1861; entered the Union Army in 1860 as a
member of the Seventh New York Volunteers; was promoted to first
lieutenant of Volunteers in 1862 and mustered out with the rank of
brevet major in 1864 by the consolidation of his regiment; was
graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in
1866; attended the Columbia College School of Mines in 1868;
engaged in civil engineering and also as a superintendent of a mine
for several years; member of the township committee of East Orange,
N.J., 1886-1888, and president one year; in 1897 was president of
one of the juries at the International Exposition in Brussels and a
member of the superior jury; appointed by the Governor of New
Jersey a member of the commission for the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at St. Louis, Mo., in 1904; elected as a Republican to
the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3,
1907); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906;
elected to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1911);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second
Congress; a publisher in New York City, with residence in East
Orange, N.J.; during the First World War served as the
representative of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on
the National Preparedness Committee and became its chairman; died
in East Orange, N.J., May 2, 1925; interment in Rosedale
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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