| LC control no. | n 90606697 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Grimes, James W. (James Wilson), 1816-1872 |
| Variant(s) | Grimes, James Wilson, 1816-1872 |
| Birth date | 1816-10-20 |
| Death date | 1872-02-07 |
| Place of birth | Deering (N.H.) |
| Place of death | Burlington (Iowa) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Iowa. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives Iowa. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers Governors |
| Found in | nuc89-26179: The Navy in Congress [MI] 1865 (hdg. on LCP rept.: Grimes, James Wilson, 1816-1872; usage: the Hon. Messrs. Grimes, ...) LC data base, 1/30/90 (hdg.: Grimes, James Wilson, 1816-1872; usage: James W. Grimes) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed January 31, 2024: (Grimes, James Wilson, a Senator from Iowa; born in Deering, N.H., October 20, 1816; graduated from Hampton Academy; attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; studied law; moved west and commenced practice in the "Black Hawk Purchase," Wisconsin Territory, afterward the site of Burlington, Iowa; engaged in agriculture; member, Iowa Territorial House of Representatives 1838-1839, 1843-1844; Governor of Iowa 1854-1858; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1859; reelected in 1865 and served from March 4, 1859, until December 6, 1869, when he resigned due to ill health; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-ninth through Forty-first Congresses); member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; died in Burlington, Iowa, February 7, 1872; interment in Aspen Grove Cemetery.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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