James Carroll (Maryland politician)

James Carroll ( born December 2, 1791 in Baltimore, Maryland, † January 16, 1873 ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Carroll attended until 1808, the St. Mary's College in Baltimore. Then he studied law, but without working as a lawyer. Instead, he settled on a farm on the West River. In 1831 he returned to Baltimore, where he became a judge at the court of guardianship for orphans. He was also a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1838, Carroll was in the fourth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1839. Since he resigned in 1840 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1841. In 1844, Carroll competed unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of Maryland. After he retired from politics. He died on January 16, 1873 in Baltimore.