J. Harry Covington

James Harry Covington ( May 3, 1870 in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, † February 4, 1942 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1914 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Covington attended the public schools of his home and then the Maryland Military Academy in Oxford. He then studied at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia history, literature and economics. After studying law at the same university and his 1894 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his hometown of Easton in this profession. Between 1903 and 1908 he was a prosecutor in Talbot County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1901, he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Covington was elected in the first district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William Humphreys Jackson on March 4, 1909. After two re- elections he could remain until his resignation on September 30, 1914 in Congress. During this time, the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

Covington's resignation came after he had been appointed in the Federal District District of Columbia to the Supreme Judge. This post he held between October 1, 1914, and June 1, 1918. Thereafter, he practiced in the federal capital as a private lawyer. Between 1914 and 1919 he also held legal lectures at Georgetown University. In 1918 he became a member of the Railway Committee of the Federal Government. James Covington died on February 4, 1942 in Washington, and was buried in Easton.