William Henry Steele (November 1, 1838 – September 21, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
[1] Steele attended a private academy in Roxbury, Connecticut, from 1848 to 1849, the Delaware Literary Institute in Franklin, New York, from 1849 to 1854, and Yale College from 1854 to 1858.
After the firm was dissolved in 1873, he formed a banking partnership with J. F. Morse called W. H. Steele & Co.
[3] In 1878, Steele was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the Oswego County 3rd District.
He was a delegate and Second Vice President of the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention.
He worked on the revising and indexing the Convention's records, a task that occupied him until 1899 and produced five printed volumes with a total of six thousand pages.