William Hepburn Armstrong

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William Hepburn Armstrong (September 7, 1824–May 14, 1919) 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.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Stephen F. Wilson

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district 1869-1871

Succeeded by Henry Sherwood