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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJames Israel STANDIFER
(1782-1837)
STANDIFER, James Israel, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Virginia, probably in 1782;
attended the common schools and was graduated from the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville; elected as a Jackson Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); elected as a
Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses,
reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and
elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from
March 4, 1829, until his death near Kingston, Tenn., August 20,
1837, while on his way to Washington, D.C.; interment in the
Baptist Cemetery, Kingston, Tenn.
Bibliography
Byas, Stephen D. ‘’James Standifer, Sequatchie Valley
Congressman.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 50
(Summer 1991): 90-97.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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