James W. McDill

James Wilson McDill ( born March 4, 1834 in Monroe, Ohio, † February 28, 1894 in Creston, Iowa ) was an American politician ( Republican). He represented the state of Iowa in both chambers of Congress.

After attending the public schools continued James McDill his education first on the Hanover College and the South Salem Academy continued, before 1853, he graduated from Miami University in Oxford. He studied law in Columbus and was admitted to the bar in 1856, after which he moved to Afton in Iowa in order to act as a lawyer there.

From 1859 he held a post in the district government of Union County; the following year he was elected there to judge. From 1862 to 1865 he worked as an official in the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, before he gave up this position and returned to Iowa. There he served as a judge at the district court and in the 3rd Judicial District of Iowa.

On March 4, 1873 James McDill moved to successfully Bled choosing a House of Representatives of the United States, where he remained until March 3, 1877. For re-election in 1876, he joined not to; Instead, he again worked as a lawyer in Afton. From 1878 to 1881 he was a member of the railway supervisory authority of Iowa. This office he let down, after he was appointed successor to the interior minister in the federal cabinet appointed U.S. Senator Samuel Jordan Kirkwood. He took his seat in the Senate from March 8, 1881 true, also ruled the by-election for himself and remained thus until March 3, 1883 Congress.

Subsequently, he joined in Iowa again, which he pursued until 1885. 1892 appointed him U.S. President Benjamin Harrison in the Interstate Commerce Commission. This authority he was a member until his death in 1894.