James H. Sinclair

James Herbert Sinclair ( born October 9, 1871 in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, † September 5, 1943 in Miami, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the third and 1933-1935 the second electoral district of the state of North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

In 1883 James Sinclair came with his parents to Cooperstown in Griggs County, North Dakota. There he attended the public schools. After he graduated from the Mayville State Normal School. He then worked from 1896 to 1898 in school administration from Cooperstown and from 1899 to 1905 he was a notary in Griggs County. Sinclair co-founded the First National Bank of Binford. From 1905 to 1908 he also worked at this bank. After a move to Kenmare in Ward County, he began to act both in agriculture and in the real estate business.

Political rise in U.S. Congress

Sinclair was a member of the Republican Party. From 1915 to 1919 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Dakota. In the congressional elections of 1918, he was elected for the third election district of his state as the successor of Patrick Daniel Norton in the U.S. House of Representatives. After he was re-elected in the following years each, he could exercise this mandate between 4 March 1919 and 3 March 1933. A census of the third constituency of North Dakota was disbanded at the end of its term in March 1933. Therefore, Sinclair ran for the congressional elections of 1932 in the second constituency. After winning the elections, he took over from the March 4, 1933 Thomas Hall and completed a legislature until January 3, 1935. During this term of office beginning and end of the legislatures in the U.S. Congress from March to January 3 were advanced. 1934 Sinclair was not nominated by his party for another term.

Further CV

After the end of his service in the U.S. House of Representatives was James Sinclair between 1936 and 1939 a member of a special commission that deals with claims of Mexico or Mexican citizens addressed (Special Mexican Claims Commission ). He died in September 1943, in Miami.