James Humphrey (New York politician)

James Humphrey ( born October 9, 1811 in Fairfield, Connecticut, † June 16, 1866 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1859-1861 and the years 1865 and 1866 New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Humphrey was born about nine months before the outbreak of the British - American War in Fairfield. He studied classical classical studies and graduated in 1831 from Amherst College in Massachusetts. Humphrey then studied law and began practicing as an attorney after receiving his approval. In 1837 he moved to Louisville ( Kentucky) and a year later to Brooklyn. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1858 he was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Taylor on March 4, 1859. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1860, a defeat and retired after March 3, 1861 the Congress of. Approximately one month after the end of his term broke from the Civil War. Humphrey ran again in 1862, a congress seat pad but at the election the Democrats Martin veal. In his fourth candidacy in 1864 he was elected in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Moses F. Odell on March 4, 1865. Humphrey died on 16 June 1866 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery. During his time as a congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( 39th Congress ).