James Knox (Illinois politician)

James Knox ( born July 4, 1807 in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York, † October 8, 1876 in Knoxville, Illinois ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1857 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Knox attended Hamilton College in Clinton, and then until 1830, the Yale College. After a subsequent law degree in 1833 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Utica in this profession. In 1836 he moved to Knoxville and his law firm in Illinois. In his new home, he was also active in agriculture. Politically, he joined the Whig party to. In 1847 he was a delegate to a Constitutional Convention for the State of Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Knox was in the fourth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard S. Molony on March 4, 1853. After a re-election as a candidate of the short-lived opposition party he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1857 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Since 1855 he was chairman of the Committee on roads and canals.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives James Knox practiced as a lawyer again. He died on October 8, 1876 in Knoxville.