William Henry Hines

William Henry Hines (March 15, 1856 – January 17, 1914) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district from 1893 to 1895.

Early life and education William Henry Hines was born in Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1865 with his parents, who settled in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools in Brooklyn and Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1881.

Career Hines was appointed town clerk of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, in 1876 and elected assessor in 1877.

He served as a National Greenback member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives for Lackawanna and Luzerne County from 1879 to 1880 and as a Democratic member from 1883 to 1884. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 21st district from 1888 to 1892. Hines was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1894.

He worked as president of the Pocono Water Company and had unsuccessful campaigns for judge in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Luzerne County in 1911 and 1913.

He resumed the practice of law in Wilkes-Barre and died there in 1914.