James Pike (politician)

James Pike ( born November 10, 1818 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, † July 26, 1895 in Newfields, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good education James Pike studied 1837-1839 at Wesleyan University in Connecticut theology. Between 1841 and 1854 he worked as a clergyman. In 1854 he moved to Pembroke, New Hampshire. There he began a political career.

Pike was first a member of the American Party and was elected in 1854 as the candidate in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1855 is the successor of George W. Kittredge. Up to the next elections in 1856, moved to Pike in 1854, founded the Republican Party. For this he was elected to Congress again in 1856. He was able to complete up to March 3, 1859 two contiguous Legislatirperioden that were overshadowed by the heated discussions in the run-up to the Civil War. During this time, the states of Minnesota and Oregon were admitted to the Union.

In 1858, Pike gave up another run for Congress. During the Civil War he was in the years 1862 and 1863 colonel of an infantry regiment from New Hampshire. In 1871, Pike ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of New Hampshire. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared; but he remained active as a preacher and was a church elder in the district of Dover. In 1886 he retired from this branch to retire back.