James I. Roosevelt

James John Roosevelt, better known as James I., ( born December 14, 1795 in New York City; † April 5, 1875 in New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1841 and 1843 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Roosevelt was born in the late 18th century in New York City, where he at Columbia College (now Columbia University) graduated 1815. He studied law and began to practice after receiving his admission 1818 in New York City. Roosevelt was alderman. In 1835 and 1840 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Policy, he belonged to the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1840 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Moses Hicks Grinnell, Edward Curtis, Josiah Ogden Hoffman and James Monroe took on March 4, 1841 which had previously together represent the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he gave up for reelection in 1842, he retired after the March 3, 1843 out of the Congress.

He then studied law at foreign courts in the UK, the Netherlands and France. Between 1851 and 1859 he was a judge on the New York Supreme Court He was a 1859 session ex officio judge of the Court of Appeals ( Court of Appeals ) of New York. President James Buchanan appointed him in 1860 to the United States Attorney for Southern New York - a position which he held until 1861. Thereafter he devoted himself to agriculture. He died on April 5, 1875 in New York City and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Congressman Robert Barnwell Roosevelt was his nephew.