Resting place Maysville Cemetery Name William Wadsworth Resigned March 3, 1887 Signature | Profession Lawyer Role U.S. representative | |
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Preceded by Laban T. MooreWilliam Wirt Culbertson Succeeded by Samuel McKeeGeorge M. Thomas Similar People William "Bull" Nelson, Joshua W Sill, John Stuart Williams | ||
Battles and wars Big Sandy Expedition | ||
William Henry Wadsworth (July 4, 1821 – April 2, 1893) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in Maysville, Kentucky, Wadsworth attended town and county private schools. He studied law and graduated from Augusta College, Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1841. He was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Maysville, Kentucky. He served as member of the State senate 1853-1856. He served as presidential elector on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860.
Wadsworth was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1865). His vote on the Thirteenth Amendment is recorded as nay. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864.
During the Civil War Wadsworth served as aide to General Nelson, with the rank of colonel, at the Battle of Ivy Mountain. He was appointed United States commissioner to Mexico, under the treaty of Washington for the adjustment of claims, by President Grant in 1869.
Wadsworth was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Maysville, Kentucky, April 2, 1893. He was interred in Maysville Cemetery.