James Henderson Imlay

James Henderson Imlay (born November 26, 1764 in Imlaystown , Monmouth County , Province of New Jersey , †  March 6, 1823 in Allentown , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1797 and 1801 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Imlay attended Princeton College until 1786 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1791, he began to work in this profession. He was also a member of the state militia. Between 1793 and 1796 he sat as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly , whose president he was in 1796 as the successor to Ebenezer Elmer . In the late 1790s he joined the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton .

In the New Jersey state-wide congressional elections of 1796, Imlay was elected for the second seat of his state in the US House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1797. After a re-election, this time for the fourth mandate, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1801 . During this time, the government and Congress moved to the new federal capital Washington, DC. In 1798, James Imlay was one of the MPs charged with conducting impeachment proceedings against US Senator William Blount .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, James Imlay practiced as a lawyer again. In 1804 and 1805 he was a postman in Allentown. He died there on March 6, 1823.

Web links

• James Henderson Imlay in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Henderson Imlay in the database of Find a Grave (English)