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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasBUCHANAN, James Paul
(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.
United States. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. House. Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of James Paul Buchanan, late a Representative from Texas. Seventy-fifth Congress, first session
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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