James Mosgrove (June 14, 1821 – November 27, 1900) was a Greenback member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. James Mosgrove was born in

Kittanning, Pennsylvania Kittanning ( pronounced ) is a borough in, and the county seat of, Armstrong County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is situated northeast of Pittsburgh, along the east bank of the Allegheny River. The name is derived from ''Kithanink' ...

. He attended the common schools and was engaged in the iron business. He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1878 on the Greenback ticket. However, Mosgrove was elected as a Greenback candidate to the Forty-seventh Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in

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. He also declined to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. He was engaged in banking and was president of the First National Bank from 1882 until his death in Kittanning in 1900. Interment in Kittanning Cemetery.

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