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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJames MATLACK
(1775-1840)
MATLACK, James, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Woodbury, Gloucester
County, N.J., January 11, 1775; attended the common schools;
interested in various business enterprises; justice of the peace in
1803, 1808, 1813, 1816, and 1820; surrogate in 1815; chairman of
the township committee; judge of the court of common pleas of
Gloucester County 1806-1817; member of the board of freeholders
1812-1815, 1819-1821, and 1828; member of the state senate in 1817
and 1818; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and
reelected as a Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress
(March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1824; affiliated with the Whig Party when it was formed; resumed
business interests; died in Woodbury, N.J., January 16, 1840;
interment in Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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