Background
Duncan, William Addison was born on February 2, 1836 in Cashtown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative politician
Duncan, William Addison was born on February 2, 1836 in Cashtown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended the public schools, and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1857.
William A. Duncan was born in Cashtown, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Duncan was elected district attorney in 1862 and 1868.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress and served until his death in Gettysburg.
He had been reelected to the Forty-ninth Congress. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Member United States House