James Barroll Ricaud

James Barroll Ricaud ( born February 11, 1808 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 24, 1866 in Chestertown, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Ricaud attended the public schools of his home and then to 1828 the Washington College in Chestertown. After a subsequent law degree in 1829 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to Chestertown to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1834 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland; 1836-1844 he was a member of the State Senate. Mid-1830s to Ricaud joined the Whig Party was founded at that time. In 1840 and 1844 he was elector for the party at the respective presidential elections. After the dissolution of Whigparty in the 1850s he became a member of the short-lived American Party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Ricaud was in the second electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob Shower on March 4, 1855. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Ricaud first practiced as a lawyer again. In 1864 he became a judge in the second judicial district of Maryland. He died on January 24, 1866 in Chestertown, where he was also buried.