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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | James E. O'Hara |
| Address |
New Bern, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
February 26, 1844 |
| Died |
September 15, 1905
(61 years) |
| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | RBH
May 31, 2016 07:37pm |
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| Info | O’HARA, James Edward, a Representative from North Carolina; born in New York City 2/26/1844; pursued an academic course; studied law in North Carolina and at Howard University, Washington, D.C.; engrossing clerk in the constitutional convention of North Carolina in 1868, also in the State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869
Chairman of the board of commissioners for Halifax County 1872-1876
Admitted to the bar in 1873 and practiced
Member of the State constitutional convention in 1875
Unsuccessfully contested the election of William H. Kitchin to the Forty-sixth Congress
US Representative (R-NC) 1883-1887; was one of four African American Republicans to serve in the US House in the years between Reconstruction and the passage of the law banning blacks from voting. Unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886
Resumed the practice of law in New Bern, Craven County, N.C.
Died in New Bern NC 9/15/1905; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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