James Dellet (February 18, 1788December 21, 1848) was an American politician and a member of the

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from

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Biography

Early life

He was born on February 18, 1788 in Camden,

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. He moved to Columbia,

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, with his parents in 1800. In 1810, he graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and practiced. He moved to the

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in 1818, settling in Claiborne, and continued the practice of law. He worked with

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fame.

Political career

In 1819, he was elected to the first

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under state government. He served as its secretary, and he was re-elected in both 1821 and 1825. In the 1830s, he partnered with Lyman Gibbons, who married Dellet's daughter Emma, and who went on to serve on the Alabama Supreme Court.Amherst College, ''Obituary Record: Roll of Graduates deceased during the Year 1879-1880; Deaths Not Previously Reported'' (1880), p. 187. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1833, but he was later elected as a Whig to the

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. He served from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841, and from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845, after he was again elected to the

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. He resumed the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Death

He died on December 21, 1848, in Claiborne,

, in

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. He was interred in a private cemetery on his Dellet Park plantation at Claiborne.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dellet, James Members of the Alabama House of Representatives 1788 births 1848 deaths Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama 19th-century American politicians American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law People from Camden, New Jersey People from Columbia, South Carolina People from Monroe County, Alabama Alabama lawyers University of South Carolina alumni 19th-century American lawyers