James W. Throckmorton

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James W. Throckmorton

James Webb Throckmorton (born February 1, 1825 in Sparta , White County , Tennessee , †  April 21, 1894 in McKinney , Texas ) was an American medic, lawyer, politician and the 13th governor of the state of Texas.

Throckmorton was born to Elizabeth (Webb) and William Edward Throckmorton in Tennessee, where his father worked as a medic. In 1836 the family moved to Fayetteville , Arkansas , where his father opened a new practice. In 1842 they moved to Texas, where his father died after a short illness and James first had to take care of the family. When the family was secured, he left Texas and studied medicine in Princeton , Kentucky , where he stayed until the outbreak of the Mexican-American War . He returned to Texas and joined the Army in February 1847. In 1848 he married Annie Rattan in Illinois , with whom he later had ten children, returned with her to Texas and opened his first doctor's office just outside of McKinney. Within a very short time he became a respected member of society, invested in real estate, studied law and was involved in the church.

Despite being a successful doctor, he joined the R. DeArmond and Thomas Jefferson Brown law firm and continued to practice law. Always interested in politics, Throckmorton joined the Whigs and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives for the first time of three terms as representative of the 25th District in 1851 . Above all, he campaigned for the establishment of public schools and a nationwide railway network. In 1857, now a member of the Democrats , he was elected to the Texas Senate. On August 9, 1866, he was elected Governor of Texas to succeed Andrew Jackson Hamilton and remained so until August 1867, when he was removed from this post by General Philip Sheridan . He was succeeded by Elisha M. Pease .

He then practiced again as a lawyer in Collin County before he moved into the House of Representatives of the United States on March 4, 1875 after a successful election . He initially represented the third electoral district of his state there until March 3, 1879 . After he had waived re-election in 1878, he came again in 1882 in the fifth district of Texas and was again successful, whereupon he could spend two more terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . In the meantime, in 1881, a candidate for the US Senate had failed. In June 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on which Grover Cleveland was nominated for the third time in a row as a presidential candidate.

After his death, the citizens of McKinney erected a memorial in his honor with the inscription: A Tennesseean by Birth, a Texan by Adoption .

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SURNAME Throckmorton, James W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Throckmorton, James Webb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medical professional, lawyer, and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Sparta , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1894
Place of death McKinney , Texas