William Yerger Humphreys

Background

William Y. Humphreys was born on September 9, 1890 in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi. His father was Benjamin G. Humphreys World War II

Education

Humphreys attended the public schools and Sewanee Grammar School, Sewanee, Tennessee. He studied law at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia

Career

From 1911 to 1914, while in the employ of the United States House of Representatives as assistant superintendent of the House document room. Humphreys was admitted to the bar on June 1, 1914, and commenced practice in Greenville, Mississippi. He served as first lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army during the First World War.

Humphreys was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Benjamin G. Humphreys II, and served from November 27, 1923, to March 3, 1925.

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1924. He resumed the practice of law in Greenville, Mississippi.

Humphreys served as prosecuting attorney of Washington County from 1928 to 1933. Humphreys died on February 26, 1933 in Greenville, Mississippi.

He was interred in Greenville Cemetery.

Connections

Father:

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys

Mother:

Louise (Yerger) Humphreys

Spouse:

Clara Mai Nulsen

child:

Wm Humphreys