William Addison Duncan Explained

William A. Duncan
State:Pennsylvania
District:19th
Term Start:March 4, 1883
Term End:November 14, 1884
Preceded:Frank Eckels Beltzhoover
Succeeded:John Augustus Swope
Birth Date:2 February 1836
Birth Place:Cashtown, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Party:Democratic

William Addison Duncan (February 2, 1836 – November 14, 1884) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

William A. Duncan was born in Cashtown, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools, and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1857. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Duncan was elected district attorney in 1862 and 1868. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress and served until his death in Gettysburg. He had been reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

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