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James Allison Jr.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 16th district
In office
March 4, 1823 – August 26, 1825
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byJames S. Stevenson, Robert Orr Jr.
Personal details
Born(1772-10-04)October 4, 1772
Elkton, Province of Maryland, British America
DiedJune 17, 1854(1854-06-17) (aged 81)
Beaver, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyJacksonian Democratic-Republican

James Allison Jr. (October 4, 1772 – June 17, 1854) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving two terms from 1823 to 1825.

Biography

James Allison Jr. (father of John Allison) was born near Elkton, Maryland. He moved with his parents to Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1774. At seventeen years of age, he enrolled in the school of David Johnson of Beaver, Pennsylvania.

He saw service in the Indian warfare at Yellow Creek. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1796, and commenced practice in Washington, Pennsylvania. He returned to Beaver in 1803 and continued the practice of law until 1822, when he was elected to Congress. He served as prosecuting attorney of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, from 1803 to 1809.

Congress

Allison was elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth and a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congresses and served until his resignation on August 26, 1825 before the assembling of the Nineteenth Congress.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law until 1848, after which he discontinued active pursuits and lived in retirement until his death in Beaver in 1854. He was interred in Old Cemetery.

References

  1. Dubin, Michael. United States Congressional Elections 1788-1997, p. 85.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byDistrict created Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district

1823–1825
alongside Walter Forward
Succeeded byJames S. Stevenson
Robert Orr Jr.
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