James W. Throckmorton

James Webb Throckmorton (* February 1, 1825 in Sparta, White County, Tennessee, † April 21, 1894 in McKinney, Texas) was an American physician, lawyer, politician and the 13th Governor of the State of Texas.

Throckmorton was born as the son of Elizabeth ( Webb) and William Edward Throckmorton in Tennessee, where his father worked as a physician. 1836 the family moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where his father opened a new practice. 1842 then moved to Texas, where his father died after a short illness, and James had to take care of the family first. After the family was secured, he left Texas and studied medicine in Princeton, Kentucky, where he remained until the outbreak of the Mexican -American War. He returned to Texas and joined in February 1847 the army. In 1848 he married Annie rattan in Illinois, with whom he later had ten children, returned with her back to Texas and opened just outside of McKinney his first medical practice. Within a short time he was a respected member of society, has invested in real estate, studied law and became involved in the church.

Although he was a successful doctor, he joined the Law Offices of R. DeArmond and Thomas Jefferson Brown and continued to work as a lawyer. As Throckmorton was always interested in politics, he joined the Whigs and was elected in 1851 for the first time by three terms representing the 25th District in the Texas House of Representatives. He advocated primarily for the construction of public schools and a nationwide rail network. 1857, now a member of the Democrats, he was elected to the Senate from Texas. On 9 August 1866, he was elected as the successor to Andrew Jackson Hamilton as governor of Texas and remained there until August 1867, when he was relieved by General Philip Sheridan this item. He was succeeded by Elisha M. Pease.

He then practiced as a lawyer in the first again Collin County before he moved into the House of Representatives of the United States following his successful election on 4 March 1875. He held there until March 3, 1879 the first third electoral district of his state. After he had renounced in 1878 for re-election, in 1882, he joined again in the fifth district of Texas, and was again successful, and he could spend up to March 3, 1887, two further legislative sessions in Congress. In the meantime, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1881 was a failure. In June 1892 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, at the Grover Cleveland was nominated for the third consecutive year as a presidential candidate.

After his death, the citizens of McKinney erected in his honor a monument with the inscription: A Tennesseean by Birth, a Texan by adoption.