William Hepburn Armstrong

William Hepburn Armstrong
File:William Hepburn Armstrong (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th district
In office March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871
Preceded by	Harmar Denny, John Gilmore
Succeeded by	Robert Hanna Hammond
Personal details
Born	(1824-09-07)September 7, 1824 Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Died
Political party	Republican

William Hepburn Armstrong (September 7, 1824 – May 14, 1919) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William H. Armstrong was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton College in 1847. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Williamsport. He served in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1860 and 1861. He declined a commission as president judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit of Pennsylvania in 1862.

Armstrong was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870. He declined the office of commissioner of Indian affairs tendered by President Ulysses S. Grant. He served as commissioner of railroads from 1882 to 1885. He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, until 1898, when he retired from active business pursuits. He moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where he died in 1919. Interment in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery.

Sources

• William Hepburn Armstrong at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

• Works by William Hepburn Armstrong at Project Gutenberg
• William Hepburn Armstrong at The Political Graveyard
• William Hepburn Armstrong at Find a Grave

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Stephen F. Wilson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district 1869–1871	Succeeded by Henry Sherwood