James Wilson I (New Hampshire)

James Wilson ( born August 16, 1766 Peterborough, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; † January 4, 1839 in Keene, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1809 and 1811 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Wilson attended the Phillips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts ), and then studied until 1789 at Harvard University. After studying law and its made ​​in 1792 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Peterborough.

Politically, Wilson was a member of the Federalist Party. Between 1803 and 1808 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. In the congressional elections of 1808, which were held all across the state, he was for the fifth parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1809, to succeed Clement Storer of the Democratic- Republican Party. Since he resigned in 1810 to further candidacy, Wilson was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1811.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. Between 1812 and 1814 Wilson was again a deputy in the Parliament of his home state. Since 1815, he lived in the town of Keene, where he also worked as a lawyer. He died on 4 January 1839 in Keene and was also buried there. His son James (1797-1881) sat 1847-1850 also for New Hampshire in Congress.

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