- William D. Kelley
William D. Kelley (
April 12 ,1814 -January 9 ,1890 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .William Darrah Kelley, a
Quaker , was born inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania . He served as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia from 1846-1856.Kelley was elected as a Republican to Congress in 1860 and served from
March 4 ,1861 , until his death inWashington, D.C. . He was nicknamed "Pig-Iron Kelley" due to his role as a major spokesman in Congress for Pennsylvania's iron interests. In 1871, he was the first Washington politician to suggest of what would later becomeYellowstone National Park , as reported byJay Cooke : "Let Congress pass a bill reserving the Great Geyser Basin as a public park forever--just as it has reserved that far inferior wonder the Yosemite Valley " [As reported in a letter fromJay Cooke toFerdinand Hayden [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/RAILROAD/ystone.html] ] He served as Chairman on the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and on the Committee on Manufactures (51st United States Congress ).His daughter
Florence Kelley was an influential social reformer, associated withHull House .Notes
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