James Henry Mays

James Henry Mays ( born June 29, 1868 in Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, † April 19, 1926 in Wendell, Idaho ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1921 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Utah in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Mays attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1883 with his parents to Kansas, where the family settled in Galena. There Mays attended the Kansas State Normal School and then worked in mining and the timber industry. Between 1893 and 1902 he worked in the life insurance industry. He has worked in the cities of Chicago, Dubuque, and Salt Lake City. Previously, he had studied law at the University of Michigan. Concurrent with his work as an insurance agent Mays also worked as a lawyer; Furthermore, he was involved in the establishment of some industrial companies.

Politically, James May's Member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1914, he was for the second electoral district of the state of Utah, where he has been resident since 1902, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he broke on March 4, 1915 Jacob Johnson. After he was re-elected in each of the years 1916 and 1918, Mays was able to complete a total of three parliamentary terms in Congress until March 3, 1921.

In 1920, Mays gave up another candidacy. After the next elections be seat in Congress went to the Republican Elmer O. Leatherwood. Mays retired to his ranch in Idaho, which he managed until his death in 1926.