William Pitt Lynde (16 December 1817-18 December 1885) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-WI 1) from 5 June 1848 to 3 March 1849 (preceding Charles Durkee) and from WI-4 from 4 March 1875 to 3 March 1879 (succeeding Alexander Mitchell and preceding Peter V. Deuster) and the Democratic Mayor of Milwaukee from April 1860 to April 1861 (succeeding Herman L. Page and preceding James S. Brown).
Biography[]
William Pitt Lynde was born in Sherburne, New York in 1817, and he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1841 to practice law. He served as the territory's Attorney General in 1844, as the US Attorney for Wisconsin from 1845 to 1848, in the US House of Representatives from 1848 to 1849, as Mayor of Milwaukee from 1860 to 1861, in the State Senate from 1869 to 1871, and back in the US Congress from 1875 to 1879. He died in 1885.