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WILLIAM EASTON ENGLISH
William Eastin
English (son of William Hayden English), a Representative
from Indiana; born at "Englishton Park," near Lexington,
Scott County, Ind., November 3, 1850; moved to Indianapolis
in 1865; attended public and private schools; was graduated
from the law department of the Northwestern Christian (now Butler)
University at Indianapolis in 1873; was admitted to the bar
the same year and practiced in Indianapolis until 1882; member
of the State house of representatives in 1880; successfully
contested as a Democrat the election of Stanton J. Peelle to
the Forty-eighth Congress and served from May 22, 1884, to March
3, 1885; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884
and resumed his former business pursuits at Indianapolis; delegate
to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892 and 1896, and
chairman of the committee on rules and order of business in
the former; left the Democratic Party in 1900 and became active
in the Republican Party; served as captain and aide-de-camp
on the staff of Gen. Joseph Wheeler in the Spanish-American
War; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912;
elected a member of the State senate in 1916; reelected in 1920
and again in 1924 and served until his death in Indianapolis,
Ind., April 29, 1926; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
