William Lilly (June 3, 1821 – December 1, 1893) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Formative years
Born in Penn Yan, New York on June 3, 1821, Lilly moved to Carbon County, Pennsylvania in 1838, and became involved in the mining of anthracite coal. He was subsequently elected as colonel of one of the militia regiments of the Lehigh Valley and then was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
Career
A Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1850 and 1851, he switched to the Republican Party in 1862, and was appointed as a delegate to six Republican National Conventions. He was then appointed as a delegate at large to the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1872 and 1873.
Lilly was later elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress and served in that capacity until his death in 1893.
Death and interment
Lilly died in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania on December 1, 1893 and was interred in the City Cemetery.
See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)
Sources
The Political Graveyard
1821 births
1893 deaths
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Democrats 19th-century American politicians