James Milnor
James Milnor ( born June 20, 1773 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † April 8, 1844 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1811 and 1813, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
James Milnor attended the Philadelphia Grammar School and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, but without making a conclusion. After a subsequent law degree in 1794 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Norristown to work in this profession. In 1797 he moved his residence and his law firm to Philadelphia. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party. In 1800 and from 1805 to 1810 he was a member of the local city council. Between 1808 and 1809 he was its president.
In the congressional elections of 1810 Milnor in the first electoral district of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Porter on March 4, 1811. Until March 3, 1813, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In this time of the beginning of the British -American war fell.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Milnor studied theology. In 1814 he was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Two years later he became one of the priests ( Assistant Minister ) of St. Peter 's Church in Philadelphia. Since 1816 he was pastor at St. George 's Church in New York. This office he held until his death on 8 April 1844.