James F. Briggs

James F. Briggs

James Frankland Briggs (born October 23, 1827 in Bury , England , † January 21, 1905 in Manchester , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . From 1877 to 1883 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1829, James Briggs' parents emigrated to America from England with their young son. The family settled in Holderness, now Ashland in Grafton County , New Hampshire. Briggs attended public schools in his new home and Newbury Academy . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1851, he began to work in Hillsborough in this profession.

Briggs was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1856 and 1858 he was an MP in the New Hampshire House of Representatives . During the Civil War he was a major in a New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Unit. After the war he continued his practice as a lawyer. In 1871 he moved to Manchester. In 1874 he was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives; in 1876 he was a member of the State Senate .

In 1876 Briggs was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of New Hampshire . There he stepped on March 4, 1877 to succeed the Democrat Samuel Newell Bell . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1883 . From 1881 he was chairman of the Committee on Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of War.

Briggs renounced another candidacy in 1882 and practiced as a lawyer again in the following years. In the years 1883, 1891 and 1897 he was again a member of the House of Representatives of his state; In 1897 he was its speaker as the successor to Stephen S. Jewett . In 1889 Briggs attended a meeting to revise the New Hampshire Constitution as a delegate. James Briggs died in Manchester on January 21, 1905 and was buried in Ashton. His son Frank (1851-1913) sat between 1907 and 1913 for the state of New Jersey in the US Senate .

Web links

• James F. Briggs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James F. Briggs in the database of Find a Grave (English)