Ollie Murray James (July 27, 1871August 28, 1918) was an American politician. A
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, he represented
Kentucky
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in the
United States House of Representatives
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and the
United States Senate
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.
Biography
James was born and raised in western Kentucky. As a teenager he served as a
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in the
Kentucky General Assembly
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. James studied
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and was admitted to the
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in 1891, beginning his practice that year.
In 1902 James sought and won election to the
United States House of Representatives
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from
Kentucky's 1st district, the far western part of the state. He was re-elected to the House four times, serving there from March 4, 1903 to March 3, 1913. He was the Chairman of the Democratic National Conventions of 1912 and 1916.
In 1912 James decided to give up his House seat to seek election to the
United States Senate
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. He won that election in the Kentucky state legislature on 9 and 16 January 1912 and was sworn in on March 4, 1913. He served as chairman of the Senate Committee on Patents. He died during his term of office in a hospital in
Baltimore, Maryland
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on August 28, 1918.
He was buried in Mapleview Cemetery in
Marion, Kentucky
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The farm communities surrounding Marion are home to a large Amish popula ...
.
File:Sen. James Kimble Vardaman, James Thomas Heflin, Ollie James between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.jpg, James K. Vardaman
James Kimble Vardaman (July 26, 1861 – June 25, 1930) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi and was the Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908. A Democrat, Vardaman was elected in 1912 to the United States Senate in ...
, James Thomas Heflin
James Thomas Heflin (April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom", was an American politician who served as a United States representative and United States senator from Alabama.
Early life
Born in Louina, Alabama, he attended t ...
, and James in 1912
File:Ollie James and Justus Goebel (1912).jpg, James and Justus Goebel
Justus Goebel, Sr. (July 21, 1858 – March 11, 1919) of Covington, Kentucky was a Kentucky delegate to the 1912 Democratic National Convention and a tax-reform advocate. He was president of Lowry & Goebel.
Biography
He was born on July 21, 1 ...
at the 1912 Democratic National Convention
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The Convention
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File:Ollie M. James, white hat.jpg, Ollie M. James, photo from the Harris & Ewing photo studio
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History
As a rookie news photographer, Harris covered the Johnstown flood of 1889 in Pennsylvania. He worked at Hearst News ...
See also
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References
Ollie M. James, late a representative from Kentucky, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920
External links
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Candidates in the 1912 United States presidential election
20th-century American politicians
1871 births
1918 deaths
Democratic Party United States senators from Kentucky
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky
People from Marion, Kentucky
19th-century American politicians