James A. Cravens

James Addison Cravens (* November 4, 1818 in Rockingham County, Virginia; † June 20, 1893 in Hardinsburg, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1865 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Cravens was a second cousin of Congressman James H. Cravens ( 1802-1876 ). In 1820 he moved with his father to Indiana, where they settled near Hardinsburg. Cravens attended the public schools of his new home and worked in agriculture, in this case, especially in the livestock. In the years 1846 and 1847, he participated as a volunteer unit from Major Indiana on Mexican-American War in part. Then he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In the years 1848 and 1849 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana; 1850-1853 he was a member of the State Senate. He was also a member of the state militia. In 1854 he was promoted to brigadier general of this force. In the congressional elections of 1860 Cravens was in the second electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Hayden English on March 4, 1861. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1865 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Civil War. In 1864 he gave up another candidacy.

In 1866 James Cravens as a delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives in Philadelphia in part; In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, on the Horatio Seymour was nominated as a presidential candidate. After he retired from politics and worked again in agriculture. He died on June 20, 1893 in Hardinsburg, where he was also buried.