James Manning Tyler

James Manning Tyler

James Manning Tyler (born April 27, 1835 in Wilmington , Windham County , Vermont , †  October 13, 1926 in Brattleboro , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the second constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Tyler visited the Brattleboro Academy and then studied at the Law University of Albany in Albany ( New York ) law. After his admission to the bar in September 1860, he began to practice in his new profession in Wilmington. Tyler was a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1863 and 1864, and served as a prosecutor from 1866 to 1867. Tyler was the curator of the Vermont State Mental Hospital from 1875 until his death in 1926.

In the congressional elections of 1878 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second district of Vermont , where he succeeded Dudley Chase Denison on March 4, 1879 . After re-election in 1880, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1883 . In 1882 he renounced another candidacy. After serving in Congress, Tyler returned to practice as a lawyer. From 1887 to 1908 he was a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court . From 1917 to 1923 he was President of the Vermont National Bank and from 1923 to 1924 he headed the Vermont People's National Bank . James Tyler died in October 1926 at the age of 91.

Web links

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

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