Background
Cole, William Hinson was born on January 11, 1837 in Baltimore.
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Cole, William Hinson was born on January 11, 1837 in Baltimore.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Cole attended private school and studied medicine and law. He graduated from the University of Louisiana (present day Tulane University) in 1860.
He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Baltimore in 1857. During the American Civil War, Cole enlisted in the Confederate States Army as a surgeon of Francis South. Bartow"s Eighth Georgia Regiment. He served in the Battle of Gettysburg, then took charge of the wounded in General James Longstreet"s corporations
He was captured and held as prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore for six months, until he was returned South and acted as surgeon on the staff of General
Bradley Johnson of Maryland until the close of the war. After the war, Cole was appointed deputy register of Baltimore in 1870, but resigned when he was elected chief clerk of the first branch of the Baltimore City council.
He served as a reading clerk of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1874 to 1878, and later became a reporter on the Baltimore Evening Commercial, and later its proprietor. He connected with the Baltimore Gazette, and afterward with its successor, The Baltimore Day, continuing with the press until 1885.
lieutenant was at this point he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress, and served from March 4, 1885 until his death in Washington, District of Columbia
He is interred in Bonnie Brae Cemetery of Baltimore.
Member Kansas Territorial House of Representatives. Member United States House of Representatives (Democrat) from Maryland., 49th Congress, 1885-1886.