James Manning Tyler

James Manning Tyler (* April 27, 1835 in Wilmington, Windham County, Vermont, † October 13, 1926 in Brattleboro, Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Tyler visited the Brattleboro Academy and then studied at the Law University of Albany in Albany (New York) Jura. After his took place in September 1860 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Wilmington. Tyler was a member of the Republican Party. In 1863 and 1864 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont, and from 1866 to 1867, he worked as a prosecutor. Since 1875 until his death in 1926, Tyler was curator of the State Mental Hospital of Vermont.

In the congressional elections of 1878, he was elected in the second district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Dudley Chase Denison on March 4, 1879. After a re-election in 1880 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1883 two legislative sessions. In 1882 he gave up another candidacy. After his time in Congress, Tyler again worked as a lawyer. From 1887 to 1908 he was judge of the Vermont Supreme Court From 1917 to 1923 he was president of the Vermont National Bank and from 1923 to 1924, he headed the Vermont People's National Bank. James Tyler died in October 1926 at the age of 91 years.