William Wirt Culbertson was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Kentucky

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Biography

Born near Lewistown, Pennsylvania

Lewistown, Pennsylvania

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, Culbertson moved with his parents to Kentucky.
He attended the common schools.
He engaged in the manufacture of iron.
Enlisted as a private in the Union Army

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 in Company F, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, July 16, 1861.
He was promoted to the rank of captain August 2, 1861.
He resigned March 3, 1864.
He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1870.
He served in the State senate in 1873.
He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876, 1880, and 1884.
He served as mayor of Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland, formerly known as Poage Settlement, is a city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 21,981 at the 2000 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the 2000 census, the...

, in 1882 and 1883 when he resigned.

Culbertson was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885).
He died in Oxford, Ohio

Oxford, Ohio

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, on October 31, 1911.
He was interred in Ashland Cemetery

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, Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland, formerly known as Poage Settlement, is a city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States, nestled along the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 21,981 at the 2000 census. Ashland is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the 2000 census, the...

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