James Sproull Cothran (August 8, 1830 – December 5, 1897) was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives for
South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. He served for two terms from 1887 to 1891.
Biography
James Sproull Cothran was born in
Abbeville County, South Carolina on August 8, 1830. He attended the country schools and graduated from the
University of Georgia in
Athens in 1852. He was an
attorney
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in private practice. He served with the
Confederate Army
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. He was solicitor of the eighth judicial circuit of South Carolina in 1876 and 1880 and
judge
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of the eighth judicial circuit of South Carolina from 1881 to 1886. He was elected as a
Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891). Cothran was not a candidate for renomination to the Fifty-second Congress in 1890. He died on December 5, 1897, in
New York, New York
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. He was interred in
Upper Long Cane Cemetery,
Abbeville, South Carolina
Abbeville is a city and county seat of Abbeville County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is located west of Columbia and south of Greenville. Its population was 5,237 at the 2010 census. Settled by French Huguenot settlers, it was ...
.
External links
Congressional biography
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1830 births
1897 deaths
University of Georgia alumni
People from Abbeville County, South Carolina
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina
19th-century American politicians