James Findlay (politician, 1770)

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James Findlay

James Findlay (* 12. October 1770 in Mercersburg , Franklin County , Province of Pennsylvania ; † 28. December 1835 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . He was Mayor of Cincinnati from 1805 to 1806 and 1810 to 1811. From 1825 to 1833 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the first  congressional district of the state of Ohio.

biography

James Findlay was born in Mercersburg to Samuel Findlay and Jane Smith. He had two brothers, William Findlay , who later became governor of Pennsylvania, and John Findlay , who later represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. After his father suffered financial setbacks, he and his wife Jane Irwin moved to Cincinnati in what was then the Northwest Territory in 1793 . Together with the future Senator John Smith , he soon became an influential businessman. From 1799 to 1802 he was the first representative of Hamilton County in the House of Representatives for the Northwest Territory. In 1802 he became United States Marshal for the Ohio Country . In 1805 he became mayor of Cincinnati for the first time. This term of office lasted until 1806. From 1810 to 1811 he was again mayor. In the British-American War of 1812 he served in the US Army as a colonel .

In 1825 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Democrat. His tenure lasted until 1833 after Robert Todd Lytle was able to defeat him. In 1834 he ran unsuccessfully for the post of governor, Robert Lucas , the incumbent, was able to prevail as expected.

Findlay died in 1835 and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery .

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