William Lee Ball
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William Lee Ball (January 2, 1781 – February 29, 1824) was a nineteenth-century politician from Virginia.
Biography
Born in Lancaster County, Virginia, Ball received a liberal schooling as a child. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1805 to 1806 and again from 1810 to 1814. He served as a paymaster in the War of 1812 and was assigned to the 92nd Virginia Regiment and later went on to serve in the Virginia State Senate from 1814 to 1817. He was elected a Democratic-Republican and later a Crawford Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1816, serving from 1817 until his death in Washington D.C. on February 29, 1824. He was interred there in Congressional Cemetery.
External links
- William Lee Ball at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- William Lee Ball at Find A Grave
United States House of Representatives | ||
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Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1823 |
Succeeded by Andrew Stevenson |
Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 13th congressional district March 4, 1823 – February 29, 1824 (obsolete district) |
Succeeded by John Taliaferro |
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- 1781 births
- 1824 deaths
- Members of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
- Virginia State Senators
- People from Virginia in the War of 1812
- Burials at the Congressional Cemetery
- Virginia Democratic-Republicans
- People from Lancaster County, Virginia
- Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- Virginia United States Representative stubs