William Walton Griest
U.S. Congressperson
1858 – 1929
Who was William Walton Griest?
William Walton Griest was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William W. Griest was born in Christiana, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Millersville State Normal School in 1876. He was engaged in teaching, and was a member of the city school board of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for twenty-four years. He was the director and an incorporator of the Pennsylvania Public School Memorial Association. From 1882 to 1888, he was engaged in newspaper work as editor of the Inquirer, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He served as chief clerk in the county commissioner’s office. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Tax Commission, and a delegate to several Republican State conventions and to every Republican National Convention from 1896 to 1928. He was the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903. He served as a member of the State sinking fund commission and of the board of pardons. He also served as president of lighting and street railway companies from 1903 to 1927.
Griest was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to the ten succeeding Congresses and until his death at Mount Clemens, Michigan.
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- Born
- Sep 22, 1858
Christiana - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Millersville University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Lancaster
- Died
- Dec 5, 1929
- Resting place
- Woodward Hill Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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