James Overstreet

James Overstreet ( born February 11, 1773 in Barnwell, Barnwell County, South Carolina, † May 24 1822 in China Grove, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1822 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Overstreet attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1798 admitted to the bar he began in Barnwell County to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic- Republican Party.

Between 1808 and 1813 Overstreet was a deputy in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In 1818 he was in the fourth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Bellinger on March 4, 1819. After a re-election in 1820, he could remain until his death on 24 May 1822 Congress. James Overstreet died on the way home from Washington in China Grove ( North Carolina). There he was also buried.

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