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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioJames JOYCE
(1870-1931)
JOYCE, James, a
Representative from Ohio; born in Cumberland, Guernsey County,
Ohio, July 2, 1870; attended the common schools; taught school in
Cumberland and Pleasant City, Ohio, and also studied law; entered
the Cincinnati Law School in 1891 and was graduated in 1892; was
admitted to the bar at Columbus, Ohio, on March 3, 1892;
superintendent of the Senecaville (Ohio) High School 1893-1895;
began the active practice of law in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1895;
member of the State house of representatives 1896-1900; delegate to
the Republican National Convention in 1904; elected as a Republican
to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1911);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Cambridge, Ohio;
unsuccessful candidate for election as associate justice of the
supreme court of Ohio in 1916; died in Cambridge, Ohio, March 25,
1931; interment in the mausoleum in Northwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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