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Oil on canvas, Seymour S. Stone, 1946, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
BUCHANAN, James Paul, (cousin of Edward William Pou),
a Representative from Texas; born in Midway, Orangeburg County,
S.C., April 30, 1867; moved to Texas in 1867 with his parents, who settled near
Chapel Hill, Washington County; attended the district school; graduated from
the law department of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.,1889; admitted to
the bar; lawyer, private practice; justice of the peace of Washington County,
Tex., 1889-1892; prosecuting attorney, 1892-1899; district attorney for the
twenty-first judicial district of Texas, 1899-1906; member of the Texas state
house of representatives, 1906-1913; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States
Representative Albert Sidney Burleson; reelected to the Sixty-fourth and to the
eleven succeeding Congresses (April 15, 1913-February 22, 1937); chair,
Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses);
died on February 22, 1937, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Prairie Lea
Cemetery, Brenham, Tex.
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