James Phelan Junior

James Phelan

James Phelan Jr. (born December 7, 1856 in Aberdeen , Mississippi , †  January 30, 1891 in Nassau , Bahamas ) was an American politician . Between 1887 and 1891 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1867, James Phelan moved his eponymous father James Phelan (1821-1873), a former deputy in the Congress of the Confederate States , to Memphis , Tennessee, where he attended private schools. He then graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute until 1871 . In the following years he studied philosophy at the University of Leipzig in Germany until 1878 . He then returned to Memphis, where he published a daily newspaper. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1881, he began to work there in his new profession.

Politically, Phelan was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1886 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Zachary Taylor on March 4, 1887 . After a re-election he could remain in Congress until his death on January 30, 1891 . Phelan published, among other things, a treatise on the history of the state of Tennessee with the title "History of Tennessee, the Making of a State". He was married to Mary Early, with whom he had three children.

Web links

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

• James Phelan Jr. in the database of Find a Grave (English)