William S. Pilcher

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William Stanton Pilcher (January 5, 1803 — August 14, 1858) was the eleventh Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1857 to 1858. He was born in Stafford County, Virginia to a wealthy manufacturing family. Pilcher came to Louisville in 1833 to study law.

He unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenent Governor in 1844 as a Jacksonian Democrat, but was elected mayor of Louisville on the Know Nothing party on April 4, 1857 in a landslide. However, by May 13, 1858 he was too ill to continue his duties, and he died later that year, becoming the first Mayor of Louisville to die in office.

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Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County, 2nd edition, Louisville, KY: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1.
"William S. Pilcher". The Encyclopedia of Louisville (1). (2001).