James S. Simmons

James Samuel Simmons ( * November 25, 1861 at Liberty, Frederick County, Maryland, † November 28, 1935 in Saint Petersburg, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Simmons was the nephew of Congressman Milton Urner ( 1839-1926 ). He attended the common schools and Frederick College. In 1880 he moved to Roanoke, Virginia, where he worked in the real estate industry. Since 1894, he practiced this activity in Niagara Falls. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1907 and 1908 he was in Niagara Falls chairman of his party.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Simmons was the 34th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peter A. Porter on 4 March 1909. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 two legislative sessions. In 1912 he was not re-elected.

In June of this year, Simmons was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, to the President William Howard Taft to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again in the real estate industry in Niagara Falls. Since 1927 he has also worked in Saint Petersburg in this business. There he died on 28 November 1935.