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Beckner, William Morgan

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 19, 1841, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was elected city judge without opposition March, 1865; county attorney without opposition in 1867; was nominated without opposition and elected county judge in 1870; was appointed prison commissioner in 1880, and wrote report of commission with reference to system for managing state prisons. He was appointed railroad commissioner in 1882 and served until February, 1884, when he resigned. He was nominated and elected member of the constitutional convention without opposition in 1890; and was elected to the legislature without opposition in 1893. He was elected to congress as a democrat in 1894, to fill a vacancy.