James A. Louttit

James Alexander Louttit ( born October 16, 1848 in New Orleans, Louisiana; † July 26, 1906 in Pacific Grove, California ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a small child was James Louttit in 1849 with his parents in the Calaveras County, California, where he later attended public and private schools. After he graduated from the State Normal School in Sacramento. After a subsequent law degree in 1869 and its recent approval as a lawyer since 1871, he began working in Stockton in this profession. From 1871 to 1879 he was a prosecutor in Stockton. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1884 Louttit in the second electoral district of California was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Budd on March 4, 1885. Since he resigned in 1886 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1887. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Louttit again practiced as a lawyer in Stockton. He died on July 26, 1906 in Pacific Grove, and was buried in Stockton.