Jason Niles

Jason Niles ( born December 19, 1814 Burlington, Vermont; † July 7, 1894 in Kosciusko, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jason Niles attended the common schools and then studied until 1837 at the University of Vermont in his hometown of Burlington. He then worked for several years as a teacher in the states of Ohio and Tennessee. After studying law and its made ​​in 1851 admitted to the bar he began in Kosciusko Attala County in Mississippi to practice in his new profession. Already in 1851 he had been a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of Mississippi. After the Civil War Niles was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1865 and 1868, he was again as a delegate to meetings to reform the constitution. 1870 Niles was elected to the House of Representatives from Mississippi, from 1871 to 1872, he served as a district judge in the 13th Judicial District.

1872 Niles was selected in the fourth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he broke on March 4, 1873 from George C. McKee, who joined in the fifth constituency. As Niles but the Democrats Otho Robards Singleton defeated in the next congressional elections in 1874, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1875. After his time in Congress Niles again worked as a lawyer and was 1876-1880 the newspaper out " Kosciusko Chronicle ". He died in July 1894 and was buried in Kosciusko.

Burlington (Vermont) Kosciusko (Mississippi) Attala County, Mississippi Mississippi Territory Narsworthy Hunter Thomas M. Green, Jr. William Lattimore George Poindexter Christopher Rankin William Haile (Mississippi) Thomas Hinds Franklin E. Plummer David Dickson (politician) Samuel J. Gholson Thomas J. Word Jacob Thompson Benjamin D. Nabers Daniel B. Wright Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II George E. Harris Henry L. Muldrow John Mills Allen Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. John E. Rankin Thomas Abernethy Jamie L. Whitten Travis Childers Alan Nunnelee Harry Cage John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne Seargent Smith Prentiss Albert G. Brown William H. Hammett Stephen Adams (politician) Winfield S. Featherston John Allen Wilcox William T. S. Barry Hendley S. Bennett Reuben Davis (representative) Joseph L. Morphis Albert R. Howe Guilford Wiley Wells Elza Jeffords James B. Morgan John Kyle William V. Sullivan Hubert D. Stephens Bill G. Lowrey Wall Doxey David R. Bowen Webb Franklin Bennie Thompson Robert W. Roberts Patrick W. Tompkins John D. Freeman Otho R. Singleton William Barksdale Henry W. Barry Thomas C. Catchings Pat Henry (politician) Benjamin G. Humphreys II William Y. Humphreys William Madison Whittington Frank E. Smith John Bell Williams Charles H. Griffin Chip Pickering Gregg Harper Jefferson Davis Henry T. Ellett Wiley P. Harris William A. Lake Chapman L. Anderson Joseph H. Beeman Andrew F. Fox Wilson S. Hill Thomas U. Sisson T. Jeff Busby Aaron L. Ford W. Arthur Winstead Thad Cochran Michael Parker (politician) Gene Taylor (Mississippi politician) Steven Palazzo John A. Quitman John J. McRae Charles E. Hooker Henry Smith Van Eaton T. R. Stockdale Walter M. Denny William F. Love Frank A. McLain Adam M. Byrd Samuel Andrew Witherspoon William W. Venable Ross A. Collins Aubert C. Dunn William M. Colmer Larkin I. Smith John R. Lynch James Ronald Chalmers Ethelbert Barksdale James G. Spencer Patrick Henry (U.S. Congressman) Eaton J. Bowers Paul B. Johnson, Sr. T. Webber Wilson Robert S. Hall Frederick G. Barry Clarke Lewis John Sharp Williams William A. Dickson Dan R. McGehee James Collier
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