district succeeded death_date birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name
18th robert hanna hammond 14 may 1919 williamsport , pennsylvania republican march 3 , 1871 harmar denny , john gilmore 07 september 1824 march 4 , 1869 william hepburn armstrong
 pennsylvania william hepburn armstrong
william hepburn armstrong

william hepburn armstrong -lrb- september 7 , 1824 -- may 14 , 1919 -rrb- was a republican member of the u.s. house of representatives from pennsylvania .
william h. armstrong was born in williamsport , pennsylvania .
he graduated from princeton college in 1847 .
he studied law , was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in williamsport .
he served in the pennsylvania state house of representatives in 1860 and 1861 .
he declined a commission as president judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit of pennsylvania in 1862 .
armstrong was elected as a republican to the forty-first congress .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 .
he declined the office of commissioner of indian affairs tendered by president ulysses s. grant .
he served as commissioner of railroads from 1882 to 1885 .
he resumed the practice of law in washington , d.c. , and philadelphia , until 1898 , when he retired from active business pursuits .
he moved to wilmington , delaware , where he died in 1919 .
interment in wilmington and brandywine cemetery .
