KELLEY, WILLIAM D.
\kˈɛlɪ], \kˈɛlɪ], \k_ˈɛ_l_ɪ]\
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(1814-1890), was admitted to the bar in 1841. He was Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1846 to 1856. He was a member of the Republican National Convention of 1860, and represented Pennsylvania in the U. S. Congress as a Republican from 1861 to 1890. He published " The New South " and many influential political writings, and was noted as a strong protectionist.
By John Franklin Jameson