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(August 9, 1836 — March 13, 1925) McLean was an American politician and lawyer. William Pinckney McLean was born in Mississippi and moved to Texas with his mother in 1839. He attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated from the law department in 1857. That same year he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Marion County, Texas. McLean served as a member of the State House of Representatives until he resigned in 1861 to enlist in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he returned to serve in the State House of Representatives fin 1869. McLean was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives during the Forty-Third Congress from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000553]
Member of Texas Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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