James Bowen Everhart
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File:James Bowen Everhart (Pennsylvania Congressman).jpg
Frontispiece of 1889's A Memorial of the Life and Character of James Bowen Everhart.
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th district |
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In office March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887 |
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Preceded by | William Ward |
Succeeded by | Smedly Darlington |
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Born | West Chester, Pennsylvania |
July 26, 1821
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. West Chester, Pennsylvania |
Political party | Republican |
James Bowen Everhart (July 26, 1821 – August 23, 1888) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
James B. Everhart (son of William Everhart) was born in the Boot, near West Chester, Pennsylvania. He attended Bolmar’s Academy in West Chester and was graduated from Princeton College in 1842. He studied law at Harvard University and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and went abroad and spent two years in study at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh. He returned to West Chester and engaged in the practice of law. During the American Civil War, Everhart served in Company B, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1876 to 1882.
Everhart was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886. He resumed the practice of law and died in West Chester in 1888. Interment in Oakland Cemetery, near West Chester.
Writings
His writings, which are marked by terseness of style, include Miscellanies, in prose (West Chester, Pa, 1862); a volume of short poems (Philadelphia, 1868); and “The Fox Chase,” a poem (Philadelphia, 1875).[1]
Family
His brother Benjamin Matlack Everhart was a noted mycologist.
Notes
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References
- James Bowen Everhart at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-02-14
- The Political Graveyard
External links
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Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district 1883–1887 |
Succeeded by Smedley Darlington |
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