William Watson McIntire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Watson McIntire

American politician

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1850

Place of Birth: Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1912

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About William Watson McIntire

  • William Watson McIntire (June 30, 1850 – March 30, 1912) was a U.
  • S.
  • Representative from Maryland. McIntire was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
  • As a child, he moved with his parents to Washington County, Maryland.
  • He attended public and private schools and learned the trade of machinist.
  • In July 1872 he moved to Baltimore.
  • He received an appointment in the United States Railway Mail Service in 1874, remaining in this service until 1885, when he resigned.
  • He attended Hagerstown Academy and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore.
  • He was admitted to the bar in Baltimore and elected as a Republican to the city council of Baltimore in 1887 and 1888.
  • In the campaign of 1895 he was treasurer of the Maryland Republican State and city committees. Prominent for many years in Republican politics, McIntire was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1899.
  • He was part of an all-Republican Congressional delegation elected that year from Maryland.
  • He is generally credited with obtaining the first appropriation for a new Custom House in Baltimore and with defeating a bill to move the United States Naval Academy to a Northern city.
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress. McIntire served as General Agent of the United States Life Insurance Company between 1905 and 1912.
  • When General Peter Leary, Jr.
  • died in 1911, he was strongly put forward to take his place on the Baltimore Sewerage Commission.
  • Mayor J.
  • Barry Mahool appointed him, and the appointment was so popular that the City Council suspended its rules in order to confirm it unanimously.
  • While still on the commission, he died on a boat in the Gunpowder River in Baltimore County, Maryland, having been stricken by apoplexy when fishing for pike alone.
  • Friends brought him to shore, but he died late in the evening without having regained consciousness.
  • His remains were brought to his city home the next day.
  • He is buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore.

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