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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJames Jefferson WILSON
(1775-1824)
Senate Years of Service:
1815-1821Party: Democratic
RepublicanWILSON, James Jefferson, a
Senator from New Jersey; born in Essex County, N.J., in 1775;
attended the common schools; editor and publisher of the True
American of Trenton 1801-1824; clerk in the State general assembly
in 1804; judge advocate and captain, Hunterdon Brigade, New Jersey
Militia, in 1806; surrogate of Hunterdon County in 1808; member,
State general assembly 1809-1811; brigadier general and adjutant
general of New Jersey 1810-1812; reappointed brigadier general and
adjutant general of New Jersey in 1814; captain in the Third
Regiment, Hunterdon Brigade 1814; captain in the New Jersey Militia
1814; brigadier general and quartermaster general of New Jersey
1821-1824; elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1815, to January 8, 1821, when he
resigned; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman,
Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Congresses), Committee on Claims (Sixteenth Congress); appointed
postmaster of Trenton, N.J., in 1821 and served until his death in
that city July 28, 1824; interment in the First Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Wilson, James Jefferson, comp. A National Song-Book, Being a
Collection of Patriotic, Martial, and Naval Songs and Odes.
Trenton, N.J.: James J. Wilson, 1813.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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