James Polk Ownby (April 22, 1845 – April 12, 1906) was an American politician and farmer.
Ownby was born in
Bedford County, Virginia
Bedford County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is the town of Bedford, which was an independent city from 1968 until rejoining the county in 2013.
Bedford County was c ...
. In 1859, he moved to
Callaway County, Missouri. Ownby moved to
Piatt County, Illinois
Piatt County is a county in Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 16,673. Its county seat is Monticello.
Piatt County is part of the Champaign–Urbana, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The firs ...
and settled in
Monticello, Illinois. He was a farmer. Ownby served in the
Illinois House of Representatives
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 re ...
in 1895 and 1896 and was a
Democrat
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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. Ownby died at his son's home in
La Place, Illinois.
['James P. Ownby-obituary,' The Monticello Republican (Illinois), April 19, 1906, pg. 3]
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1845 births
1906 deaths
People from Bedford County, Virginia
People from Monticello, Illinois
Farmers from Illinois
Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
19th-century American legislators
19th-century Illinois politicians
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