James P. Pigott

James P. Pigott

James Protus Pigott (born September 11, 1852 in New Haven , Connecticut , †  July 1, 1919 there ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1895 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Pigott attended the public schools of his home country and then studied law at Yale College until 1880, among other things. After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in his new profession in New Haven. Before that, he had been New Haven City Clerk between 1881 and 1884 .

Pigott became a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1885 and 1886 . In both 1888 and 1900 Pigott was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In the congressional election of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of Connecticut , where he succeeded Washington F. Willcox on March 4, 1893 . Since he was already defeated in the following elections in 1894 against the Republican Nehemiah D. Sperry , he was able to complete only one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1895 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, James Pigott returned to work as a lawyer. He died on July 1, 1919 in his native New Haven.

Web links

• James P. Pigott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James P. Pigott in the database of Find a Grave (English)