James Sykes (governor)

James Sykes ( born March 27, 1761 Dover, Delaware, † October 18, 1822 ) was an American politician and 1801-1802 Governor of the State of Delaware.

Early years

James Sykes attended the public schools in Wilmington and Newark. He then studied at the later Governor of Delaware, Joshua Clayton, medicine. After qualifying as a doctor, he practiced for four years in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Then he returned to Dover, where he became a well-known physician and surgeon soon.

Political rise

Between 1793 and 1795 Sykes was a member of the Senate from Delaware. In 1796 he was secretary of the House of Representatives of the State. After that, he was from 1797 to 1801 again a member of the State Senate and became its President. After the launch on March 3, 1801 resignation of Governor Richard Bassett, who had been appointed to a federal judgeship, Sykes fell to the Office of the Governor as President of the Senate.

Governor of Delaware and other CV

Sykes task as governor was to finish the unexpired term of his predecessor, who still ran until January 1802. During these ten months, he continued the policy of his predecessor. After the end of his tenure, he worked as a physician in Dover again. At the same time, he was again a member and President of the State Senate from Delaware 1802-1812. Between 1814 and 1820, he moved his medical practice to New York City before he returned again in 1820 to Dover. There he died in October 1822. With his wife Elizabeth Goldsborough James Sykes had two children. James Sykes was the grandfather of George Sykes, who was during the American Civil War general in the Union army.

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