James M. Marvin

James Madison Marvin ( born February 27, 1809 in Ballston, New York, † April 25, 1901 in Saratoga Springs, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Madison Marvin was born about three years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Ballston in Saratoga County. He attended community schools. Then he moved to Saratoga Springs, where he pursued the hotel business there and in Albany. Politically he belonged at that time to the Whig party. In 1845 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Saratoga County and had them in the years 1845, 1857, 1862 and 1874 the chair.

In the congressional elections of 1862 for the 38th Congress Marvin was a Republican in the 18th Election District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clark B. Cochrane on March 4, 1863. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1868, he retired after the March 3, 1869 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury ( 39th and 40th Congress ).

After his conference time he was president of the First National Bank of Saratoga Springs and director of the New York Central Railroad. On April 25, 1901, he died in Saratoga Springs and was then buried in Green Ridge Cemetery.