James Albertus Tawney

James Albertus Tawney (born January 3, 1855 in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , †  June 12, 1919 in Excelsior Springs , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1911 he represented the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Tawney was trained as a blacksmith by his father and then worked as a machinist. In August 1877 he moved to Winona , Minnesota. There he worked until January 1881 in the trades he had learned. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his admission as a lawyer in 1882, he began to work in Winona in his new profession.

At the same time, Tawney began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1890 he was elected to the Minnesota Senate. In the congressional election of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Minnesota , where he succeeded Democrat William H. Harries on March 4, 1893 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1911 . Between 1897 and 1905 he served as the Whip of the Republican majority faction; from 1905 to 1911 he was chairman of the budget committee. During his time in Congress, the 1898 Spanish-American War took place. At that time the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration.

In 1910, James Tawney missed his party's nomination for another term in the US House of Representatives. From 1911 until his death, he was a member of a Canadian-American commission that dealt with border issues between the two states; until 1914 he was head of the American delegation within this commission. Tawney died in Missouri on June 12, 1919 and was buried in Winona.

Web links

• James Albertus Tawney in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Albertus Tawney in the database of Find a Grave (English)