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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJames Robinson McCORMICK
(1824-1897)
McCORMICK, James Robinson,
a Representative from Missouri; born near Irondale, Washington
County, Mo., on August 1, 1824; attended the public schools in
Washington County, Mo.; received private instruction and entered
Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., as a medical student; was
graduated from the Memphis (Tenn.) Medical College in 1849 and
commenced practice in Wayne County, Mo.; moved to Perry County in
1850 and continued the practice of his profession; delegate to the
State constitutional convention in 1861; during the Civil War
served as a surgeon in the Sixth Regiment, Missouri Volunteer
Infantry, Union Army; served in the State senate in 1862, but
resigned on account of duties in the Army; brigadier general of
militia in 1863; after the war located in Arcadia, Mo., and resumed
the practice of medicine; again served in the State senate in 1866,
but resigned the following year; elected as a Democrat to the
Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas
E. Noel; reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses
and served from December 17, 1867, to March 3, 1873; was not a
candidate for reelection in 1872; moved to Farmington, Mo., in
1874; practiced medicine and engaged in the drug business; died in
Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo., May 19, 1897; interment in
Masonic Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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