James Thorington

James Thorington ( born May 7, 1816 in Wilmington, North Carolina, † June 13, 1887 in Santa Fe, New Mexico ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1827, James Thorington moved with his parents to Montgomery, Alabama. There he attended the public schools. Between 1830 and 1832, he graduated from the Military School in Fayetteville ( North Carolina). From 1832 to 1835 Thorington studied at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He then attended law school in Montgomery. Between 1837 and 1839 he lived in the West and worked as a trader and trapper on the upper Missouri River and the upper reaches of the Columbia River.

In 1839 Thorington settled in Davenport later in State of Iowa. After his made in 1844 admitted to the bar he began to work there in his new profession. Between 1843 and 1847 he was mayor of that city, and from 1843 to 1851 he was judge of the probate court in Scott County. From 1846 to 1854 he was employed in the management of the local District Court.

Thorington was a member of the Whig Party and was built in 1854 as the candidate in the second electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1855 to succeed his party colleague John Parsons Cook, who had not been nominated again for his friendly attitude towards slavery. Since he resigned in 1856 to further candidacy, Thorington was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1857. This was overshadowed by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War. During this time, the Whig Party dissolved. Thorington was then a member of the newly formed Republican Party.

Between 1859 and 1863 he was sheriff in Scott County; 1864 to 1868 he was Clerk (Recorder) in this district. Between 1873 and 1882, Thorington was an American Consul and Trade agent in Colombia. After a stroke, which he suffered in the year 1886, he went to a relaxing holiday with his daughter to Santa Fe in the former New Mexico Territory. There, James Thorington died on 13 June 1887. He was buried in Davenport.

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