James B. Eustis

James Biddle Eustis ( August 27, 1834 in New Orleans, Louisiana, † September 9, 1899 in Newport, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate.

After studying classical antiquity Sciences James Eustis attended Harvard Law School where he got his degree in 1854, two years was taken out to the bar and commenced practice in his native city of New Orleans. During the Civil War he served as military judge ( Judge Advocate ) in the Confederate Army; after he returned to his law firm.

Even before the Reconstruction Eustis was elected to the House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was a member of a commission that was sent to Washington to talk with U.S. President Andrew Johnson on the needs of Louisiana. In 1872 he sat again in the House of Representatives of his State, from 1874 then in the Senate from Louisiana.

On January 12, 1876 Eustis then moved one for the Democrats in the U.S. Senate in Washington. He had been elected by the state legislature as a compromise candidate after the seat had been vacant for four years. Reason was the refusal of Parliament to choose one of the two rival claimants William L. McMillen and PBS Pinchback. Eustis ' tenure ended after misguided re-election on March 3, 1879. He focused initially on after his work as a law lecturer at the University of Louisiana, which he had begun in 1877 and held until 1884.

Eustis was chosen a second time in the U.S. Senate and graduated from there this time a full term of office of 4 March 1885 to 3 March 1891. To redial he did not present himself. Instead, he initially remained in Washington and worked as a lawyer before he was appointed U.S. ambassador to France in 1893. In 1897 he returned to the United States and settled in New York.

James Eustis died in 1897 in Newport. His older brother George was sitting 1855-1859 for Louisiana House of Representatives of the United States. The diplomat Charles E. Bohlen was his grandson.