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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJames BUCHANAN
(1839-1900)
BUCHANAN, James, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Ringoes, Hunterdon County,
N.J., June 17, 1839; attended the public schools and Clinton
Academy; studied law at Albany University; was admitted to the bar
in 1864 and commenced practice in Trenton, N.J.; reading clerk of
the New Jersey House of Assembly in 1866; member of the Trenton
Board of Education in 1868 and 1869; presiding judge of Mercer
County 1872-1877; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1872; appointed a member of the board of trustees of Peddie
Institute, Hightstown, N.J., in 1875; member of the Common Council
of Trenton 1883-1885; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3,
1893); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-first Congress);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the
practice of law in Trenton; elected city solicitor of Trenton May
7, 1900, and served until his death; trustee of Bucknell College,
Lewisburg, Pa.; died in Trenton, N.J., on October 30, 1900;
interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Cherryville, Hunterdon County,
N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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