William C. McCauslen

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William Cochran McCauslen (1796 - March 13, 1863) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born near Steubenville, Ohio, McCauslen attended the public schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Steubenville. He was a law partner of Secretary of War Stanton. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1829, 1830, 1832, and 1833. He owned and edited a Democratic newspaper in Steubenville.

McCauslen was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845). Commissioned August 31, 1846, during the Mexican War as a captain and commissary of subsistence of the Third Regiment, Ohio Infantry. Honorably discharged June 24, 1847. He died in Steubenville, Ohio, March 13, 1863. He was interred in Union Cemetery.

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• William C. McCauslen at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress