James M. Wallace (1750 – December 17, 1823) was an American politician who served as a

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member of the

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for

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from 1815 to 1821. Wallace was born in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He pursued preparatory studies in

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, and participated in the

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as a member of Capt. James Roger's, Col. Timothy Green's, and Capt. William Brown's companies, and at the close of the war was major of a battalion of

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. He commanded a company of rangers in defense of the frontier in 1779. He became major of the

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Militia in 1796. He was one of the commissioners of the county from 1799 to 1801, and a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1806–10. Wallace was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the declination of Amos Slaymaker to serve. He was reelected to the

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and Sixteenth Congresses. He declined to be a candidate for renomination and retired to his farm. He died near

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. Interment in the Old Derry Church Graveyard,

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