William Elliott (3 September 1838-7 December 1907) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-SC 7) from 4 March 1887 to 23 September 1890 (succeeding Robert Smalls and preceding Thomas E. Miller) and from 4 March 1891 to 3 March 1893 (succeeding Miller and preceding George W. Murray) and from SC-1 from 4 March 1895 to 4 June 1896 (succeeding Miller and preceding Murray) and from 4 March 1897 to 3 March 1903 (succeeding Miller and preceding George S. Legare).
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William Elliott was born in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1838, and he became a lawyer in Charleston in 1861. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and he served in the State House in 1866, as a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention, and in the US House of Representatives from 1887 to 1890, from 1891 to 1893, from 1895 to 1896, and from 1897 to 1903, retaining power in the majority-African-American district by alleging electoral fraud on the part of his black rivals and, from 1896, by presiding over the disenfranchisement of the state's black Republican voters. He died in Beaufort in 1907.