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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaJames Hardin PETERSON
(1894-1978)
PETERSON, James Hardin, a
Representative from Florida; born in Batesburg, Lexington County,
S.C., February 11, 1894; moved to Lakeland, Fla., in 1903; attended
the public schools; was graduated from the law department of the
University of Florida at Gainesville in 1914; admitted to the
Florida bar in 1914 and commenced practice in Lakeland in 1915; law
clerk in United States General Land Office in 1914; city attorney
of Lakeland, Fla., in 1916, 1917, and 1919-1932, of Frostproof,
Fla., 1918-1929, of Lake Wales, Fla., 1920-1930, and of Eagle Lake,
Fla., 1923-1933; during the First World War served as a chief
yeoman in the United States Navy 1917-1919; prosecuting attorney
and county solicitor of Polk County, Fla., 1921-1932; special
counsel for the State department of agriculture 1930-1932; elected
as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the eight succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1951); chairman, Committee on
Public Lands (Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eighty-first
Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1950 to the
Eighty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in Lakeland,
Fla.; special counsel for the Territorial Government of Guam;
chairman of Commission on Federal Application of Laws to Guam;
served as chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors,
First State Bank of Lakeland; resided in Lakeland, Fla., where he
died March 28, 1978; interment in Roselawn Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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