Jason Niles

Jason Niles

Jason Niles (born December 19, 1814 in Burlington , Vermont , † July 7, 1894 in Kosciusko , Mississippi ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jason Niles attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at the University of Vermont in his native Burlington until 1837 . He then worked for several years as a teacher in the states of Ohio and Tennessee . After studying law and his admission as a lawyer in 1851, he began to practice in Kosciusko in Attala County in Mississippi in his new profession. As early as 1851 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Mississippi constitution. After the Civil War , Niles became a member of the Republican Party . In the years 1865 and 1868 he was again as a delegate to meetings for reforming the state constitution. In 1870 Niles was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, and from 1871 to 1872 he served as district judge in the 13th District Court.

In 1872, Niles was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of Mississippi . There he replaced George C. McKee on March 4, 1873 , who moved to the fifth constituency. But since Niles was defeated by the Democrat Otho R. Singleton in the following congressional elections in 1874 , he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1875 . After his time in Congress, Niles went back to work as a lawyer and published the Kosciusko Chronicle between 1876 and 1880. He died in July 1894 and was buried in Kosciusko.

Web links

• Jason Niles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jason Niles in the database of Find a Grave (English)