James G. Maguire

James George Maguire ( born February 22, 1853 in Boston, Massachusetts, † June 20 1920 in San Francisco, California ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1899 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even as a toddler James Maguire came in 1854 with his parents to California. He attended the public schools in Watsonville and the local private Academy of Joseph K. Fallon. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1875 and 1877 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. After studying law and his 1878 was admitted to the bar he began in San Francisco to work in this profession. Between 1882 and 1888 he was a judge for the Greater San Francisco Bay, which included the city and San Francisco County.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Maguire was in the fourth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John T. Cutting on March 4, 1893. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1899 three legislative periods. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. 1898 Maguire waived on a bid again. Instead, he ran for governor of California, but was defeated by Republican Henry Gage. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again in San Francisco, where he died on 20 June 1920.