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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJames Nelson PIDCOCK
(1836-1899)
PIDCOCK, James Nelson,
(cousin of Alvah Augustus Clark), a Representative from New Jersey;
born in Whitehouse, Hunterdon County, N.J., February 8, 1836;
attended the district schools and Lebanon Grammar School, Lebanon,
N.J.; engaged in civil engineering 1850-1857; engaged in
agricultural pursuits and was also a dealer in livestock after
1857; member of the State senate from Hunterdon County, N.J.,
1877-1880; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884
and 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1888; again resumed his agricultrual pursuits;
built the Georgia Northern Railroad in southern Georgia, where he
owned large timber tracts; served as president of the board of
managers of the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane 1891-1896;
was an orchardist in New Jersey; died at Whitehouse Station, N.J.,
on December 17, 1899; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Lebanon,
Hunterdon County, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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