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William Steele

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ2580638 ↗
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William, Willie, Bill, or Billy Steele may refer to:

Law and politics

William Steele (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) (1610–1680), Lord Chancellor of Ireland

William G. Steele (1820–1892), American politician

William H. Steele (New York politician) (1838 –1911), American lawyer and politician

William Randolph Steele (1842–1901), American congressional delegate from the Territory of Wyoming

William H. Steele (Wisconsin politician) (1872–1955), American politician

William H. Steele (judge) (born 1951), American jurist

Military

William Steele (Confederate general) (1819–1885), American Army officer and Confederate general

William Steele (Australian Army officer) (1895–1966), Australian Army general

William B. Steele (born 1929), United States Army general

William H. Steele (United States Army officer) (born c.

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“William Steele” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Steele and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1610, 1680, 1820, 1892—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Steele and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from “William Steele” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.