James Mosgrove (June 14, 1821 – November 27, 1900) was a
Greenback member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
James Mosgrove was born in
Kittanning, Pennsylvania
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. He attended the common schools and was engaged in the iron business.
He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1878 on the Greenback ticket. However, Mosgrove was elected as a Greenback candidate to the
Forty-seventh Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1882
Events
January–March
* January 2
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. He also declined to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. He was engaged in banking and was president of the First National Bank from 1882 until his death in Kittanning in 1900. Interment in Kittanning Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard
1821 births
1900 deaths
People from Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Greenbacks
Greenback Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Burials in Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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