Facts: - death place: oregon - death date: september 21 , 1917 - spouse: johanna a. o'brien - office: member of the oregon constitutional convention - term end: 1857 - constituency: curry county - term start: 1857 - birth date: october 23 , 1832 - name: william henderson packwood - image: william h. packwood.png - birth place: mount vernon , illinois Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william packwood .
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william henderson packwood -lrb- 1832 -- 1917 -rrb- , was an american politician who served at the oregon constitutional convention in 1857 .a united states army veteran from the state of illinois , he was also a school superintendent and acquaintance of president abraham lincoln .he was an early resident of baker city in eastern oregon .