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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IowaJames Wilson GRIMES
(1816-1872)
Senate Years of Service:
1859-1869Party: RepublicanGRIMES, James Wilson, a
Senator from Iowa; born in Deering, N.H., October 20, 1816;
graduated from Hampton Academy; attended Dartmouth College,
Hanover, N.H.; studied law; moved west and commenced practice in
the “Black Hawk Purchase,” Wisconsin Territory,
afterward the site of Burlington, Iowa; engaged in agriculture;
member, Iowa Territorial House of Representatives 1838-1839,
1843-1844; Governor of Iowa 1854-1858; elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate in 1859; reelected in 1865 and served from
March 4, 1859, until December 6, 1869, when he resigned due to ill
health; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia
(Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Naval
Affairs (Thirty-ninth through Forty-first Congresses); member of
the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort
to devise means to prevent the impending war; died in Burlington,
Iowa, February 7, 1872; interment in Aspen Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Christoferson, Eli C.
“The Life of James W. Grimes.” Ph.D. dissertation,
State University of Iowa, 1924; Roske, Ralph J. “The Seven
Martyrs?” American Historical Review 64 (January
1959): 323-30.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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