US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Michigan. He was born one of three children as William Smith Mesick in Newark, New York, to Smith Mesick (1830-1860), and his wife Rebecca Shumway Mesick (1831-1875), on August 26, 1856. He also had two half-siblings named Anna Belle Hunt (1863-1949), and Simeon George Hunt (1867-1954). He was educated locally and attended the common public schools, before moving and attending and graduating from the prestigious Kalamazoo Business College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and attending and graduating from the law department of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was then admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced his practice of law in Mancelona, Michigan. He was then elected and served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Antrim County, Michigan, for one term. He then entered politics and decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative John Avery (1824-1914), on March 4, 1897. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Michigan's 11th District (Fifty-Fifth Congress and Fifty-Sixth Congress), serving in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1901. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for renomination losing to the United States Representative Archibald Bard Darragh (1840-1927), in 1900. During his time in the United States Congress he represented the Fifty-Sixth Congress, as the Chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 3. After his term in the United States Congress had expired he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Archibald Bard Darragh (1840-1927), on March 4, 1901. After leaving the United States Congress he resumed his practice of law in Mancelona, Michigan, and then moved to Petoskey, Michigan, where he continued with his practice of law until his retirement in about 1930. He passed away from a sudden heart attack in Petoskey, Michigan, on December 1, 1942, at the age of 86. Following his death, his funeral service was held at the Peters Funeral Home in Petoskey, Michigan, and he was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Petoskey, Michigan. He was married to Juniata Johnston Mesick (1858-1939), in Mancelona, Michigan, from September 2, 1884, until her death on May 25, 1939. The couple had two children together, both sons named, Harold S. Mesick (1887-1919), and Richard Smith Mesick (1899-1988).