William W. Van Wyck

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William William Van Wyck (August 9, 1777 - August 27, 1840) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born near Fishkill, New York, Van Wyck attended the public schools and Fishkill Academy. He engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Van Wyck was elected to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Eighteenth Congress). He moved to Sudley, Virginia, and engaged in planting. He returned to Dutchess County, New York, and died in Fishkill, New York, August 27, 1840. He was interred in the Dutch Reformed Churchyard.

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• William W. Van Wyck at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress