James E. O'Hara

James Edward O'Hara ( born February 26, 1844 in New York City; † September 15, 1905 in New Bern, North Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James O'Hara enjoyed a good education. After studying law in North Carolina and at Howard University in Washington DC and his 1873 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Even before he was in the years 1868 and 1869 administrative employee at the House of Representatives from North Carolina. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1872 and 1876 he served as a district administrator in Halifax County; in 1875, O'Hara was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully against nor William H. Kitchin for the Congress. Also an election challenge brought him then no success.

In the congressional elections of 1882 O'Hara but was elected in the second district of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Orlando Hubbs on March 4, 1883. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 two legislative sessions. In 1886, he defeated Democrat Furnifold McLendel Simmons. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives James O'Hara again worked as a lawyer in New Bern, where he died on September 1, 1905.