James F. Simmons

James Fowler Simmons ( * September 10, 1795 in Little Compton, Rhode Iceland, † July 10, 1864 in Johnston, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician of the Whig Party and later the Republican Party belonged initially.

Simmons, who was born on a farm in Newport County, attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812. He was engaged in numerous factories in Rhode Iceland and in neighboring Massachusetts; In 1822 he went into the production of yarn in Simmonsville (New Hampshire). 1827, Simmons in Johnston down where in Garngewerbe, but also in agriculture, he was more active.

From 1828 on, Simmons was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland, where he remained until 1841. In that year he moved into the U.S. Senate, in which he had been elected in 1840 as a member of the Whig party. After six years in office, he missed the re-election and the Senate had to leave again. During this time, he had been Chairman of the Committee on Manufactures.

1850 Simmons failed in the attempt to return to the Senate. He moved back to Johnston and was active in his former activities. It was not until 1856 he succeeded in re- election as Senator, this time as a candidate of the Republicans. He took his seat on 4 March 1857, laid it down on August 15, 1862. This time, he had been chairman of the Patent Committee. Simmons returned to Johnson back to where he went back to the factory sector, but died in July 1864.