Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Wallace, William Copeland

Wallace, William Copeland, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 21, 1856; was graduated from Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1873, from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1876, and from the law department of Columbia College (now Columbia University), New York City, in 1878; commenced the practice of law in New York City; assistant United States attorney for the southern district of New York 1880-1883; appointed judge advocate general on the staff of Governor Morton in 1894; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to several Republican National Conventions; resumed the practice of his profession in Brooklyn, N.Y.; also engaged extensively in banking; died at his summer home in Warwick, Orange County, N.Y., September 4, 1901; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Wallace, William Copeland," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1969 Original Sources, accessed March 28, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GDU6N4M87ERXZPS.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Wallace, William Copeland." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1969, Original Sources. 28 Mar. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GDU6N4M87ERXZPS.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Wallace, William Copeland' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1969. Original Sources, retrieved 28 March 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GDU6N4M87ERXZPS.