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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | James McDowell |
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Lexington, Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 13, 1795
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| Died | August 24, 1851
(55 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | McDOWELL, James, a Representative from Virginia; born at “Cherry Grove,” near Rockbridge County, Va., October 13, 1795; attended a classical school at Greenville, Va., a private school at Brownsburg, Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and Yale College; was graduated from Princeton College in 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar but did not practice; member of the State house of delegates 1831-1835 and again in 1838; Governor of Virginia 1843-1846; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Taylor; reelected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served from March 6, 1846, to March 3, 1851; died on his estate “Colalto” near Lexington, Va., August 24, 1851; interment in Presbyterian Cemetery.
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