James Johnson Lindley

James Johnson Lindley (born January 1, 1822 in Mansfield , Ohio , †  April 18, 1891 in Nevada , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1857 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1836, James Lindley came to Cynthiana , Kentucky with his parents . He later returned to Ohio, where he studied at Woodville College . From 1843 he was based in St. Louis (Missouri). After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1846, he began to work in this profession in Monticello . In 1848 and 1852 he was elected District Attorney.

Politically, Lindley was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded John Gaines Miller on March 4, 1853 , who moved to the fifth district. After a re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1857 . These were determined by the events leading up to the civil war . From 1855 after the dissolution of the Whigs, Lindley represented the short-lived Opposition Party in Congress. In 1856 he declined to run again.

In 1858 James Lindley moved to Davenport , Iowa , where he practiced as a lawyer. During the Civil War, he was in charge of investigating the state of the Iowa State Forces. After the war he worked as a lawyer in Chicago until 1868 ; then he returned to St. Louis. Between 1871 and 1883 he served as a judge in the Missouri Eighth Judicial District. He then retired, which he spent in Kansas City . He died on April 18, 1891 on his son's estate in the city of Nevada.

Web links

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

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