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Name | James J. Britt |
Address | Buncombe County Asheville, North Carolina , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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March 04, 1861
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Died | December 26, 1939
(78 years)
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Contributor | Chronicler |
Last Modifed | Chronicler Mar 22, 2019 06:29pm |
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Info | BRITT, James Jefferson, a Representative from North Carolina; born in Unico County, near Johnson City, TN on 3/4/1861; attended the common schools and studied under private tutors; principal of Burnsville (N.C.) Academy 1886-1893; superintendent of the public schools of Mitchell County 1894-1896; headmaster of Bowman Academy, Bakersville, N.C., 1895-1896; deputy collector of internal revenue at Asheville, N.C., 1896-1899; studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Asheville, N.C.
Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1904
Candidate for Presidential Elector (R-NC) 1904
Candidate for U.S. House (R-NC) 1906
Special assistant United States attorney in 1906 and 1907
NC Senate 1909-1911
Special counsel to the Post Office Department, 1909-1910 and to the Attorney General 1910
Third Assistant Postmaster General 1910-1913. After the sinking of the Titanic, Britt drafted a policy on reimbursing owners of postal money orders; the ship went down with an estimated $150,000 in such money orders. [Link]
US House (R-NC) 1915-1917; successfully contested the election of Zebulon Weaver to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 1, 1919-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1918
Delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention.
Resumed the practice of law in Asheville, N.C.
As a strong supporter of Prohibition, Britt served as chief counsel for the Bureau of Prohibition, Treasury Department, 1922-1932
Republican candidate for chief justice of the supreme court of North Carolina in 1926
Resumed the practice of law in 1933
Member of the National Republican Policy Committee, 1937, which established rules for the 1940 presidential nomination
Died of a heart attack in Asheville NC, 12/26/1939; interment in Riverside Cemetery.
[Link] ; New York Times, 12/27/1939; photo from Asheville Citizen, 11/6/1916. |
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