James F. Strother (politician, 1868)

James F. Strother

James French Strother (born June 29, 1868 in Pearisburg , Giles County , Virginia , †  April 10, 1930 in Welch , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1929 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Strother was a grandson of James F. Strother Sr. (1811-1860), who had represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives between 1851 and 1852, and the great-grandson of George Strother (1783-1840), who from 1817-1821 sat in Congress for Virginia . The young Strother attended public schools in his home country, including the Pearisburg Academy . He also studied at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in Blacksburg .

Between 1890 and 1893 he was deputy head of the tax office in Lynchburg . After studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and being admitted to the bar in 1894, he began to work in his new profession in Pearisburg. In 1895 he moved to Welch in McDowell County, West Virginia, where he also worked as a lawyer. Between 1897 and 1901 he served as the United States Commissioner for the federal government; from 1905 to 1924 he was a criminal court judge in McDowell County.

Strother was a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1924 as its candidate in the fifth district of West Virginia . There he took over on March 4, 1925, succeeding the Democrat Thomas Jefferson Lilly . After re-election in 1926, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1929. In 1928 Strother decided not to run again. He died in Welch in April 1930 and was buried in Bluefield .

Web links

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