William Vandever

VANDEVER, SAMUEL

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/26/2004 at 14:05:20

William Vandever, of Dubuque, was elected a member of the 35th Congress and re-elected to the 37th. William Vandever is a native of Maryland. In 1839 he came west, locating in Rock Island, where he remained until 1851, when he moved to Dubuque. In 1855 he formed a partnership with Ben. W. Samuel, of Dubuque, in the practice of law. In 1858 he was elected a member of the 36th Congress. He made a useful member of that body. While serving his second term, he abandoned his seat in Congress, returned home, and raise the 9th Iowa Infantry, of which he was made Colonel. In 1862 he was promoted a Brigadier-General, and at the close of the war was brevetted major-General. Since the close of the war he has held several important public positions.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 287 - 288