- William Vandever
William Vandever (
March 31 ,1817 –July 23 ,1893 ) was aUnited States Representative fromCalifornia andIowa , and a general in theUnion Army during theAmerican Civil War .Vandever was born in
Baltimore, Maryland , where he attended the common schools and pursued an academic course. He moved toIllinois in 1839 and to Iowa in 1851. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice inDubuque, Iowa . He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served fromMarch 4 ,1859 , toSeptember 24 ,1861 . He was a member of thepeace conference of 1861 held inWashington, D.C. , in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war.He was mustered into the
Union Army ascolonel of the9th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment , never having resigned his seat in Congress. He was promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers in 1862 and brevetted a major general in 1865.He resumed the practice of law in Dubuque and was appointed United States Indian inspector by President
Ulysses S. Grant in 1873, and served until 1877. Vandever moved toSan Buenaventura, California in 1884. He was elected as a Republican from California to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4 ,1887 –March 3 ,1891 ). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.He died in
Ventura, California , in 1893 and was buried in Ventura Cemetery.References
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