Councilor William Henson Wallace View All Years

Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 2/7/1879

Birth Place: Troy, Ohio

Party Affiliation: Whig

Assemblies Served:
Senate: LA3 (1840) - LA6 (1843)

House: LA1 (1838)

Home County: Henry

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William Henson Wallace

Henry County

Born July 19, 1811, in Troy, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Indiana before moving to the Iowa District of Wisconsin Territory in 1837. He was married to Luzanne Brazelton. He served as a Representative from Henry County in the House of Representatives of the First Legislative Assembly of the Iowa Territory from 1838 to 1839 and as a Councilor in the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Legislative Assemblies of the Territory of Iowa. Mr. Wallace moved to Washington Territory in 1853, where he was later appointed governor in 1861, however, he was also elected Washington Territory’s delegate to the United States House of Representatives in the same year, and so did not serve his term as governor. In 1863, he was appointed governor of the newly established Idaho Territory by President Abraham Lincoln. He was once again elected to the U.S. House of Representatives later that year, this time serving as the delegate from the Idaho Territory. Upon the expiration of this second term in the U.S. House of Representatives, he returned to Washington Territory in 1865 and served as probate judge in Pierce County. He died there on February 7, 1879.

Council District 4

Committees
LA6 GA (1843)

Standing Committees