James H. Osmer

James H. Osmer ( born January 23, 1832 in Tenterden, England; † October 3, 1912 in Franklin, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

During his childhood came James Osmer with his parents to the United States, where the family settled near Bellefonte (Pennsylvania). He attended private schools. He then attended the Bellefonte Academy, Mount Pleasant College and the Pennsylvania and Dickinson Seminary. After a subsequent law school in Elmira (New York) and his 1858 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Horseheads Elmira close. In 1865 he moved his practice to Franklin in Pennsylvania. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In June 1876 he was a delegate attended the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati, was nominated at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Candidate. He was also a delegate to several regional party conferences of the Republicans in Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1878 Osmer was in the 27th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lewis Findlay Watson on March 4, 1879. Since he resigned in 1880 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1881. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Osmer again practiced as a lawyer in Franklin, where he died on October 3, 1912.