James Samuel Simmons (November 25, 1861 – November 28, 1935) was a

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from

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and nephew of fellow congressman Milton George Urner. Born near

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, Simmons attended the public schools and the local academy at Liberty. He graduated from

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. He moved to

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, in 1880 and engaged in the real estate business. He moved to

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, in 1894 and continued in the real estate business. He served as chairman of the Republican city committee in 1907 and 1908. Simmons was elected as a

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to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second United States Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1913). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress. He served as the delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912. He resumed the real estate business in

, and also, in 1927, in

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, where he died on November 28, 1935. He was interred in Riverdale Cemetery in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Simmons, James Samuel 1861 births 1935 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)