William B. Conway
Deceased Person
1802 – 1839
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Who was William B. Conway?
William Bernard Conway was an American politician from Iowa.
Born in New Castle County, Delaware, Conway was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and practiced law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1838, he appointed Secretary of the Iowa Territory and served briefly as acting governor until the arrival of the Iowa Territorial Governor Robert Lucas. Conway was a writer; he wrote a poem: Bribed Legislator, and a novel: The Cottage on the Cliff: A History of the Revolution. Conway died while in office in 1839.
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