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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJames Alexander HEMENWAY
(1860-1923)
Senate Years of Service:
1905-1909Party: RepublicanHEMENWAY, James Alexander,
a Representative and a Senator from Indiana; born in Boonville,
Warrick County, Ind., March 8, 1860; attended the common schools;
studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Boonville in 1885; prosecuting attorney for the second judicial
circuit of Indiana 1886-1890; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1895, until his resignation, effective March 3, 1905, at
the close of the Fifty-eighth Congress, having been elected
Senator; chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-eighth
Congress); elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles W. Fairbanks
and served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1909; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on University of the
United States (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses); resumed the
practice of law in Boonville, Ind.; died in Miami, Dade County,
Fla., February 10, 1923; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery,
Boonville, Warrick County, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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