William Lee Ball

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other people with the same name, see William Ball.

William Lee Ball (January 2, 1781 – February 29, 1824) was a nineteenth century politician from Virginia.

Born in Lancaster County, Virginia, Ball received a liberal schooling as a child. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1805 to 1806 and again from 1810 to 1814. He served as a paymaster in the War of 1812 and was assigned to the 92nd Virginia Regiment and later went on to serve in the Virginia State Senate from 1814 to 1817. He was elected a Democratic-Republican and later a Crawford Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1816, serving from 1817 until his death in Washington D.C. on February 29, 1824. He was interned their in Congressional Cemetery.

[edit] External links

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• William Lee Ball at Find A Grave

Preceded by John Hungerford	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1823	Succeeded by Andrew Stevenson
Preceded by Burwell Bassett	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 13th congressional district March 4, 1823 – February 29, 1824 (obsolete district)	Succeeded by John Taliaferro

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.