James Cochran (politician, around 1767)

James Otis Cochran (born around 1767 in Person County , Province of North Carolina , †  April 7, 1813 in Roxboro , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1809 and 1813 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Cochran was the grandfather of James C. Dobbin (1814-1857), who was from 1853 to 1857 Secretary of the Navy of the United States and previously a Congressman from North Carolina. He attended the public schools in his home country and then worked in agriculture near Helena . At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party .

Between 1802 and 1806 Cochran was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina . In 1807 he was elected to the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1808 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Marmaduke Williams on March 4, 1809 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1813 . During this time the British-American War began .

James Cochran died in Roxboro on April 7, 1813, about five weeks after he left the US House of Representatives.

Web links

• James Cochran in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James Cochran in the database of Find a Grave (English)