James T. Elliott

James Thomas Elliott (born April 22, 1823 in Columbus , Georgia , † July 28, 1875 in Camden , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between January and March 1869 he represented the second constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

James T. Elliott

Life

James Elliott attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1854, he began to work in Camden (Arkansas) in his new profession. In 1858 he became president of the Mississippi, Quachita & Red River Railroad .

After the Civil War , Elliott became a judge in the Arkansas Sixth Jurisdiction. He held this office between October 2, 1865 and September 15, 1866. In 1867 he founded the South Arkansas Journal , which he published himself. At that time he also became a member of the Republican Party . After the assassination of Congressman James M. Hinds by a member of the Ku Klux Klan , Elliott was elected to the US House of Representatives in the necessary by-election. In Washington, DC , he completed the Hinds term between January 13 and March 3, 1869. But since he was defeated by the Democrat Anthony Rogers in the regular elections of 1868 , he had to give up his seat in Congress after these two months.

After his brief tenure in Congress, Elliott was still in the Arkansas Senate in 1870 ; from 1872 to 1874 he served as a judge in the ninth judicial district of his home state. He died in Camden in July 1875.

Web links

• James T. Elliott in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James T. Elliott in the database of Find a Grave (English)