James Israel Standifer

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James Israel Standifer

James Israel Standifer (born around 1782 in Virginia , †  August 20, 1837 in Kingston , Tennessee ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1825 and again from 1829 to 1837 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The exact date and place of birth of James Standifer are unknown. He attended public schools in Virginia and then studied at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville . Then he began a political career. Standifer was initially a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created ninth constituency of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. Up until March 3, 1825, he was initially able to complete a legislative period in Congress .

After the dissolution of his party, Standifer joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by him in 1828 . In the elections that year he was re-elected to Congress in the third district, where he replaced James Coffield Mitchell on March 4, 1829 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 20, 1837. From 1833 he represented the fourth electoral district there as the successor to Jacob C. Isacks . He also moved from the Democratic Party to the opposition in the 1830s and became a member of the Whig Party after it was founded in 1835. President Jackson's policies have been the subject of heated debate in Congress since 1829. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act , the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of the president.

According to his congressional biography, James Standifer died on August 20, 1837 near Kingston and was buried in that town. However, this information is doubted by the authorities in Roane County there , as they could not find a note about Standifer's death or burial in their archives.

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SURNAME Standifer, James Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1837
Place of death near Kingston , Tennessee