James S. Havens

James Smith Havens ( born May 28, 1859 in Weedsport, Cayuga County, New York, † February 27, 1927 in Rochester, New York ) was an American politician. In the years 1910 and 1911 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Havens attended the common schools and the Monroe Collegiate Institute in Elbridge. In 1884 he graduated from Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1877 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Rochester in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In July 1904 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis in part, on the Alton B. Parker was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Mr James Breck Perkins Havens was at the due election for the 32th seat from New York as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on April 19, 1910. Since he resigned in 1910 to further candidacy, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1911.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Havens practiced again as a lawyer in Rochester. He later became vice president and secretary of Eastman Kodak. Since 1919, he headed the legal department. He died on 27 February 1927 in Rochester, where he was also buried.