James Manahan

James Manahan ( born March 12, 1866 Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minnesota, † January 8, 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Manahan attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1886, the Winona Normal School. He then taught for two years as a teacher in Graceville. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1889 admitted to the bar he began in Saint Paul to work in his new profession. In 1895 he moved his residence and his law firm to Lincoln in Nebraska. Ten years later he moved to Minneapolis, where he continued to work as a lawyer until 1912. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the then newly created tenth electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1913 at its new mandate. Since he resigned in 1914 to another candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1915. At this time there the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives James Manahan again worked as a lawyer. He died on January 8, 1932 in Saint Paul.