James Chrisman

James Stone Chrisman ( born September 14, 1818 in Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky; † July 29, 1881 ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Chrisman attended the public schools of his home. Then he initially was active in agriculture. After a subsequent law degree in 1849 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Monticello to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1845 and 1847 he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In 1849 he was a delegate at a meeting to Ṻberarbeitung the state constitution.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Chrisman was in the fourth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Thomas Ward on March 4, 1853. Since he lost to Albert G. Talbott in the elections of 1854, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1855. This was marked by the debate over slavery prior to the Civil War.

In 1858 he applied for the return to the Congress, but was defeated William Clayton Anderson. Also a choice objection was unsuccessful. Between 1862 and 1865, Chrisman deputy in Konföderiertenkongress. Later he became one 1869-1871 to the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again in Monticello. There he is on July 29, 1881 and passed away.

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