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[[Image:Wdchipley.jpg|right|thumb|200px|William Dudley Chipley]]
Colonel '''William Dudley Chipley''' ([[June 6]], [[1840 ]] – [[December 1]], [[1897]]) was a railroad tycoon and statesman. He created two railroads in the Florida Panhandle and served many terms as [[mayor of Pensacola]], as well as in the [[Florida State Legislature]].
==Early life==
Chipley was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Doctor William Stout Chipley and Amelia Stout Elizabeth Fannin Chipley. Chipley's grandfather, the Reverend Stephen Chipley, was one of the founding citizens of Lexington, Kentucky. William Stout Chipley was renowned for his work relating to brain diseases and held two jobs: a professor of medicine at Transylvania University and the warden of the Eastern Asylum for the Insane in Lexington.
Chipley moved with his parents back to Lexington when he was four years old, and was raised for all of his formative years in Kentucky. He graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute and Transylvania University.
==Military service==
While on a trip to Washington, DC, Chipley died on December 1, 1897. He was in the middle of a trip to lobby lawmakers to base more industrial endeavors in Florida. He was buried in Columbus, while the townspeople of Pensacola erected an obelisk in the [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]] in his honor.
==Other images==
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Image:WDChipley-older.jpg|Chipley later in life
Image:Chipleyobeliskbase.jpg|Base of the Chipley obelisk in [[Plaza Ferdinand VII]]
Image:Chipleyepitaph.jpg|Plaque on the obelisk base
Image:Wmdudleychipleyobelisk.jpg|The obelisk from the front
Image:PlazaFerdinandVII.jpg|The obelisk from a distance
</gallery>
==References==
<references/>
*Biographical Notes, ''Memoirs of Florida'', Volume 1, 481–483, 1902 ([http://fulltext.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?q1=SF00000009;subtype=bib;sid=e9020005777487f24cc59837f1ceaedd;cc=fhp;idno=SF00000009_0001_000;node=SF00000009_0001_000%3A24;seq=491;view=image;size=s;start=1;c=fhp])
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{{succession box | before = [[A.L. Albert Lord Avery]] | title = [[Mayor of Pensacola]] | years = 1887—1888 | after = [[A.L. Albert Lord Avery]]}}
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[[Category:Railroad executives|Chipley, William Dudley]] [[Category:Confederate soldiers|Chipley, William Dudley]] [[Category:Mayors of the City of Pensacola|Chipley, William Dudley]] [[Category:Commissioners of the Provisional Municipality of Pensacola|Chipley, William Dudley]]
