James S. Wiley

James Sullivan Wiley ( born January 22, 1808 in Mercer, Somerset County, Massachusetts, † December 21, 1891 in Fryeburg, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Wiley was born in 1808 in Mercer, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts since 1820 and is a part of Maine. In 1826 Wiley moved to Bethel. He graduated from the Gould 's Academy and then studied until 1836 at Colby College in Waterville. Then he moved to Dover (Maine ), where he worked at the Foxcroft Academy as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1839 admitted to the bar he began in Dover to work in his new profession.

Politically, Wiley was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1846 he was a candidate in the sixth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1847 is the successor of the later U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. Until March 3, 1849, he completed a term in Congress. During this time, the Mexican -American War with large area gains of the United States ended in the west and southwest of the continent.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, James Wiley withdrew from politics. The next 40 years until 1889, he worked as a lawyer in Dover. In 1889 he moved his practice and his residence to Fryeburg, where he died in December 1891.