James I. Roosevelt

James I. Roosevelt

James John Roosevelt , better known as James I , (born December 14, 1795 in New York City , † April 5, 1875 in New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1841 and 1843 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Life

James Roosevelt was born in New York City, where he graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University ) in 1815 . He studied law and began practicing in New York City in 1818 after receiving his license. Roosevelt was a councilor . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1835 and 1840 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1840 congressional election , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Moses Hicks Grinnell , Edward Curtis , Josiah Ogden Hoffman and James Monroe on March 4, 1841 , who had previously represented the third district in the US House of Representatives together. Since he on a run again in 1842 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1843 Congress of.

He then studied foreign law in courts in Great Britain , the Netherlands and France . Between 1851 and 1859 he was a judge on the New York Supreme Court . Then in 1859 he was an ex officio judge at the Court of Appeals of New York. President James Buchanan appointed him United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1860 - a position he held until 1861. Then he devoted himself to agriculture. He died on April 5, 1875 in New York City and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn . Congressman Robert Barnwell Roosevelt was his nephew. His brother Cornelius Roosevelt (1794–1871) was the grandfather of the future President Theodore Roosevelt .

literature

• The Death of Judge Roosevelt .; Action of the City and State Courts Tributes of Respect to his Memory . In: The New York Times , April 7, 1875, p. 2.
• Roosevelt Hospital Now 50 Years Old . In: The New York Times , October 30, 1921, p. 25.
• Roosevelt, Nicholas I. In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 5 : Pickering - Sumter . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1888, p. 317 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

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