James Witherell

James Witherell ( born June 16, 1759 in Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts, † January 9, 1838 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1807 and 1808 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Witherell attended the common schools and took part in the 1775-1783 War of Independence. He was seriously wounded in 1777. After the war, Witherell studied medicine. In 1788 he was admitted as a doctor. In the same year he moved to Hampton in Vermont, and a year later to Fair Haven, also in Vermont. In both places, he practiced as a doctor.

Politically, Witherell Member, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1798 and 1802 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. Between 1801 and 1803 he was an Associate District Judge, which suggests an earlier study of law. In the years 1803-1806 Witherell served as district judge in Rutland County. Witherell in 1806 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Gideon Olin on March 4, 1807. He exercised this mandate but only until 1 May 1808. Then he stepped back, after he was appointed by President Jefferson Judge of the Supreme Court in the Michigan Territory. His parliamentary seat went to a by-election to Samuel Shaw.

Witherell exercised his judicial office in Michigan 1808-1828. During the British - American War of 1812, he was temporarily commander of U.S. troops in Detroit. He also got into captivity. He was later released. Between 1828 and 1830 he was the managing official in the Michigan Territory, an office to which he had called President John Quincy Adams. James Witherell died in January 1838 in Detroit. He was married to Amy Hawkins, with whom he had six children. His son Benjamin (1797-1867) was a local politician in Michigan and judge at the Supreme Court of that State. His grandson Thomas W. Palmer represented 1883-1889 the State of Michigan in the U.S. Senate.

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