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Preceded by
  
Charles Phelps Taft

Party
  
Republican Party

Political party
  
Republican

Succeeded by
  
Nicholas Longworth


Name
  
William Shattuc

Resigned
  
March 3, 1903

Role
  
U.S. representative

William B. Shattuc

Preceded by
  
Frank Kirchner, Samuel W. Ramp, Herman H. Rothert

Born
  
June 11, 1841 North Hector, New York (
1841-06-11
)

Died
  
July 13, 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Resting place
  
Spring Grove Cemetery

William Bunn Shattuc (June 11, 1841 – July 13, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Biography

William Shattuc was born in Hector, New York but Shattuc moved to Ohio in 1852 with his parents, who settled near Sandusky.

During the American Civil War, Shattuc enlisted in Company I, 2nd Ohio Cavalry, August 13, 1861, with a commission as a second lieutenant.

He mustered out February 21, 1863, as a first lieutenant. He served as assistant and afterward general passenger agent of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company from 1865 to 1894 and served as member of the State senate in 1895.

Shattuc was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1903).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1902.

He died in Madisonville, near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 13, 1911 and was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

References

William B. Shattuc Wikipedia