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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaJames Bowen EVERHART
(1821-1888)
EVERHART, James Bowen,
(son of William Everhart), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born
in the Boot, near West Chester, West Whiteland Township, Chester
County, Pa., July 26, 1821; attended Bolmar’s Academy, West
Chester, Pa., and was graduated from Princeton College in 1842;
studied law at Harvard University and in Philadelphia, Pa.; was
admitted to the bar in 1845; went abroad and spent two years in
study at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh; returned to West
Chester, Pa., and engaged in the practice of law; during the Civil
War served in Company B, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia;
member of the State senate from 1876 to 1882; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4,
1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1886; resumed the practice of law; died in West Chester, Pa.,
August 23, 1888; interment in Oakland Cemetery, near West
Chester.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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