James Gholson

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James Herbert Gholson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835
Preceded by Mark Alexander
Succeeded by George Dromgoole
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Brunswick County
In office
1830 – 1832
Alongside John Shell
In office
1824 – 1827
Alongside George Dromgoole and James Mallory
Personal details
Born 1798
Gholsonville, Virginia
Died July 2, 1848 (aged 49–50)
Brunswick County, Virginia
Resting place Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia
Political party Anti-Jacksonian
Alma mater Princeton College
Profession lawyer, judge

James Herbert Gholson (1798 – July 2, 1848) was a nineteenth-century congressman, lawyer and judge from Virginia.

Biography

Born in Gholsonville, Virginia, Gholson pursued in an academic course and graduated from Princeton College in 1820. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Percivals, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1824 to 1828 and again from 1830 to 1833 and was elected an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1832, serving from 1833 to 1835. Afterwards, Gholson served as a judge of the circuit court for the Brunswick circuit for many years before his death on July 2, 1848 in Brunswick County, Virginia.

Electoral history

  • 1833; Gholson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 37.62% of the vote, defeating Democrat George Coke Dromgoole and Independents William Osborne Goode and Alexander G. Knox.
  • 1835; Gholson lost his re-election bid to Dromgoole.

External links

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 4th congressional district

1833–1835
Succeeded by
George Dromgoole


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