James M. Humphrey

James Morgan Humphrey ( born September 21, 1819 in Holland, Erie County, New York, † February 9, 1899 in Buffalo, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Humphrey attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law degree in 1847 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in East Aurora, also in Erie County, to work in his new profession. Between 1857 and 1859 he was there district attorney. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In 1863 and 1864 he sat in the Senate from New York.

In the congressional elections of 1864 Humphrey was the 30th electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Ganson on March 4, 1865. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1869 two legislative sessions. Since 1865 the work of the Congress was marked by tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson. in a narrowly failed impeachment proceedings culminated. While Humphreys time in Congress were the 13th and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

1868 renounced James Humphrey on another Congress candidate. Between 1871 and 1873 he was a judge at the Superior Court of Buffalo. He then practiced as a lawyer again. This profession he practiced until the entry into retirement in 1894. He died on February 9, 1899 in Buffalo.