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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasJames Paul BUCHANAN
(1867-1937)
BUCHANAN, James Paul,
(cousin of Edward William Pou), a Representative from Texas; born
in Midway, Orangeburg County, S.C., April 30, 1867; moved to Texas
in 1867 with his parents, who settled near Chapel Hill, Washington
County; attended the district school; graduated from the law
department of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.,1889; admitted
to the bar; lawyer, private practice; justice of the peace of
Washington County, Tex., 1889-1892; prosecuting attorney,
1892-1899; district attorney for the twenty-first judicial district
of Texas, 1899-1906; member of the Texas state house of
representatives, 1906-1913; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of United States Representative Albert Sidney Burleson; reelected
to the Sixty-fourth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (April
15, 1913-February 22, 1937); chair, Committee on Appropriations
(Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses); died on February
22, 1937, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Prairie Lea Cemetery,
Brenham, Tex.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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