William Hanford Upson (11 January 1823-13 April 1910) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-OH 18) from 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1873, succeeding Rufus P. Spalding and preceding James Monroe.
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William Hanford Upson was born in Worthington, Ohio in 1823, and he became a lawyer in Akron in 1846, served as prosecuting attorney of Summit County from 1848 to 1850, in the State Senate from 1853 to 1855, served as a delegate to the 1864 and 1876Republican National Conventions, served in the US House of Representatives from 1869 to 1873, served as a circuit judge from 1884 to 1894, and died in Akron in 1910.