James Humphrey (politician)

James Humphrey (born October 9, 1811 in Fairfield , Connecticut , † June 16, 1866 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1859 and 1861 and between 1865 and 1866 .

Career

James Humphrey was born in Fairfield about nine months before the outbreak of the British-American War . He studied classical antiquity and graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1831 . Humphrey then went on to study law and began practicing as a lawyer after receiving his license. In 1837 he moved to Louisville ( Kentucky ) and a year later to Brooklyn . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1858 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York , where he succeeded George Taylor on March 4, 1859 . He suffered for his re-election bid in 1860 , a defeat and resigned from after 3 March 1861 Congress of. Civil war broke out about a month after he ended his term in office . Humphrey ran again in 1862 for a seat in Congress, but was subject to the election of the Democrat Martin Kalbfleisch . In his fourth candidacy in 1864 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the third electoral district of New York, where he succeeded Moses F. Odell on March 4, 1865 . Humphrey died in Brooklyn on June 16, 1866 and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery . During his tenure as Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( 39th Congress ).

Web links

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

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