district predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party profession term_end birth_date alt term_start image article_title state name restingplace alma_mater
2nd burwell c. ritter henry d. mchenry 21 april 1895 liberty , kentucky owensboro , kentucky democrat lawyer march 3 , 1871 05 may 1832 a wearing a black jacket and vest and a white shirt man with curly black hair and a beard march 4 , 1869 william n. sweeney - brady handy cropped.jpg william n. sweeney
 kentucky william n. sweeney elmwood cemetery bethany college
william n. sweeney

william northcut sweeney -lrb- may 5 , 1832 - april 21 , 1895 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from kentucky .
born in liberty , kentucky , sweeney attended the common schools and bethany college .
he studied law .
he was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in liberty , kentucky .
he moved to owensboro , daviess county , in 1853 .
he served as prosecuting attorney of daviess county 1854-1858 .
he served as presidential elector on the democratic ticket of douglas and johnson in 1860 .
sweeney was elected as a democrat to the forty-first congress -lrb- march 4 , 1869-march 3 , 1871 -rrb- .
he was renominated in 1870 , but declined to accept the nomination .
he resumed the practice of law in owensboro , kentucky , and died there april 21 , 1895 .
he was interred in rosehill elmwood cemetery .
