James P. Buchanan

James Paul Buchanan ( born April 30, 1867 in Midway, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, † February 22, 1937 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1937 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Buchanan was a cousin of Congressman Edward W. Pou (1863-1934) of North Carolina. Even in his year of birth, he moved with his parents to Chappell Hill, Texas, where he later attended the public schools. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas at Austin and his 1889 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the years 1889-1892 was Buchanan Justice of the Peace in Washington County. He then worked 1892-1906 in various areas as a prosecutor. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1906 to 1913 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas.

Following the resignation of Mr Albert S. Burleson Buchanan was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington at the due election for the tenth seat of Texas, where he took up his new mandate on 15 April 1913. After twelve elections he could remain until his death on 22 February 1937 at the Congress. From 1933 to 1939 he was chairman of the Appropriations Committee. In Buchanan's term as congressman was among other things the First World War. Since 1933, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress. Between 1913 and 1933, the 16th, the 17th, the 18th, the 19th, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

After Buchanan's death later President Lyndon B. Johnson was elected as his successor in Congress.