Westcott, James Diament, 1802-1880

LC control no.	no2006094239
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Westcott, James Diament, 1802-1880 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Westcott, J. D. (James Diament), 1802-1880
Associated country	United States Canada
Associated place	Tallahassee (Fla.) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	18020510
Death date	18800119
Place of birth	Alexandria (Va.)
Place of death	Montréal (Québec)
Field of activity	Law State governments
Affiliation	United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Legislators Senators
Found in	Ever Glades of the peninsula of Florida ... 1848: title page (J. D. Westcott, Jr. ) OCLC, Aug. 15, 2006 (access points: Westcott, James Diament, 1802-1880 ; usage: James Diament Westcott, Jr.; J. D. Westcott, Jr.; James D. Westcott, Jr.) Florida State University, Special Collections & Archive, viewed February 13, 2015: Westcott family papers, 1846-1931, Finding aid (Lawyer, politician. James Diament Westcott, Jr., was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 10, 1802. He received a liberal education, and studied law. He was admitted to the Bar in 1824, and became a clerk in the Consular Bureau, Washington, D.C. He was secretary of Florida Territory from 1830-1834, United States attorney for the middle district of Florida 1834-1836, a member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1832, and a delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1838 and 1839. After Florida became a state, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from July 1, 1845, to March 3, 1849, and served on various committees. He settled in New York City in 1850, and practiced law, and in 1862, he moved to Canada. Though he died in Montreal, Canada, on January 19,1880, he is interred in the City Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida) <http://fsuarchon.fcla.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=3308&q=&rootcontentid=162235>