James F. Strother (West Virginia)

James French Strother ( born June 29, 1868 in Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia, † April 10, 1930 in Welch, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1929 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Strother was a grandson of James F. Strother, Sr. (1811-1860), who had represented the state of Virginia 1851-1852 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the great-grandson of George Strother ( 1783-1840 ), who from 1817 to 1821 sat for Virginia in Congress. The young Strother attended the public schools of his home including Pearisburg Academy. He also studied at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in Blacksburg.

Between 1890 and 1893 he was deputy head of the tax office in Lynchburg. After studying law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his 1894 was admitted to the bar he began in Pearisburg to work in his new profession. In 1895 he moved to Welch in McDowell County ( West Virginia ), where he also worked as a lawyer. Between 1897 and 1901 he worked as a United States Commissioner for the Federal Government; 1905 to 1924 he was a judge at the criminal court in McDowell County.

Strother was a member of the Republican Party in 1924 as its candidate in the fifth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1925, the successor to the Democrats Thomas Jefferson Lilly. After a re-election in 1926 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1929 two legislative sessions. 1928 renounced Strother on another candidacy. He died in April 1930 in Welch and was buried in Bluefield.