James Albertus Tawney

James Albertus Tawney (* January 3, 1855 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, † June 12, 1919 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1911 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Tawney was educated by his father as a blacksmith and worked as a machinist. In August 1877 he moved to Winona, Minnesota. He worked there until January, 1881, in his learned professions. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1882 admitted to the bar he began in Winona to work in his new profession.

At the same time Tawney began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1890 he was elected to the Minnesota Senate. In the congressional elections of 1892 he was the first electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat William H. Harries on 4 March 1893. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1911 for nine consecutive terms of office. Between 1897 and 1905 he served as the Republican Whip majority faction; 1905 to 1911 he was chairman of the Budget Committee. During his time in Congress of the Spanish-American War of 1898 took place. At that time, the Philippines and Hawaii came under American administration.

In 1910, James Tawney missed his party's nomination for a second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1911 until his death he was a member of a Canadian-American Commission, which dealt with border issues between the two countries; to 1914 he was head of the American delegation within this Commission. Tawney died on 12 June 1919 in Missouri and was buried in Winona.