James Lindsay Seward

James Lindsay Seward (1859)

James Lindsay Seward (born October 30, 1813 in Dublin , Laurens County , Georgia , †  November 21, 1886 in Thomasville , Georgia) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1859 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Seward attended public schools in his home country. In 1826 he moved to Thomas County with his parents . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1835, he began to work in Thomasville in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1835 and 1852 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives .

In the congressional election of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Joseph Webber Jackson on March 4, 1853 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1859 . These were overshadowed by the events leading up to the civil war and the discussion about slavery .

In 1858 Seward declined to run again. He subsequently worked as a lawyer and planter . In 1858, 1859, and 1860 he was a delegate to regional Democratic Party Conventions in Georgia. In 1860 he was also a delegate to both Democratic National Conventions in Charleston and Baltimore . Seward served in the Georgia Senate between 1859 and 1865 . Since 1860 and 1865 he was a board member of Young's Female College and the University of Georgia in Athens . In 1865 and 1877 he participated as a delegate at meetings for the revision of the state constitution. In 1870 he was also a delegate to the Democratic Conservative Convention . He died in Thomasville in November 1886.

Web links

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

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