James J. Lindley
James Johnson Lindley (January 1, 1822 – April 18, 1891) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Missouri. Born in Mansfield, Ohio, Lindley moved with his parents to Cynthiana, Kentucky, in 1836. He attended Woodville College, Ohio. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1843. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Monticello, Missouri. Lindley was elected circuit attorney in 1848 and 1852. Lindley was elected as a Whig Party (United States), Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party (Northern U.S.), Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1856. He moved to Davenport, Iowa, in 1858 and continued the practice of law. Commissioned to investigate the condition of Iowa troops serving in the American Civil War, Civil War. After the war practiced his profession in Chicago until 1868, when he moved ...
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