William W. McIntire

Who was William W. McIntire?

William Watson McIntire was a Representative from Maryland.

McIntire was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. As a child, he moved with his parents to Washington County, Maryland. He attended public and private schools and learned the trade of machinist. In July 1872 he moved to Baltimore. He received an appointment in the United States Railway Mail Service in 1874, remaining in this service until 1885, when he resigned. He attended Hagerstown Academy and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore. He was admitted to the bar in Baltimore and elected as a Republican to the city council of Baltimore in 1887 and 1888. In the campaign of 1895 he was treasurer of the Maryland Republican State and city committees.

Prominent for many years in Republican politics, McIntire was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1899. He was part of an all-Republican Congressional delegation elected that year from Maryland. He is generally credited with obtaining the first appropriation for a new Custom House in Baltimore and with defeating a bill to move the United States Naval Academy to a Northern city.