James Lockhart (Indiana)

James Lockhart ( born February 13, 1806 Auburn, New York, † September 7, 1857 in Evansville, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853, and again in 1857 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Lockhart attended the public schools of his home. Around the year 1826, he moved to Ithaca, where he operated a mill. Since 1832 he lived in Indiana. After studying law and its made ​​in 1832 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession from 1834 in Evansville. In the years 1836 and 1837 Lockhart was a legal representative of his new hometown. Between 1841 and 1845 he served as a prosecutor in Vanderburgh County. After that, he was from 1846 to 1851 judges in the fourth judicial district of Indiana.

Politically, Lockhart was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1850 he participated in a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Indiana as a delegate. In the congressional elections of that year he was in the first electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Nathaniel Albertson on March 4, 1851. Since he resigned in 1852 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1853. This was determined by the discussions on the question of slavery.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Lockhart again worked as a lawyer. In addition, he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce for the supervision of construction work at the Naval Hospital in Evansville. In the elections of 1856 he was again elected to Congress, where he replaced Smith Miller on March 4, 1857 was four years earlier become his successor. But James Lockhart could only exercise until his death on September 7, 1857 from his position. After William E. Niblack was elected at a by-election to succeed him.