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Gwin, William Mckendree

congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 9, 1805, in Sumner, Tenn. He was appointed United States marshal for Mississippi, and was elected a representative in congress from that state, serving from 1841 to 1843. He was commissioner of public buildings to superintend the erection of the New Orleans custom house. He was a member of the convention for framing the constitution of California, and was one of the first United States senators from that state, having been elected, in 1850, for six years, and re-elected, in 1856, for the term which expired in 1861.

He died Sept. 3, 1885, in New York city.