O'Hara, James E. (James Edward), 1844-1905

LC control no.	no 96000383
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	O'Hara, James E. (James Edward), 1844-1905 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	O'Hara, Mr. (James Edward), 1844-1905 O'Hara, J. E. (James Edward), 1844-1905
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1844-02-26
Death date	1905-09-15
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	New Bern (N.C.)
Affiliation	Howard University Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States. Congress Halifax County Board of Commissioners
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Politicians
Found in	Protest against additional powers being granted ... 1866: caption title (Hon. James E. O'Hara, of North Carolina) Bio. dir. Am. Con., 1961 (O'Hara, James Edward; Afro-American; b. Feb. 26, 1844; lawyer, admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1873; elected as a Republican to the 48th-49th Congresses, serving from 1883 to 1887; d. New Bern, N.C., Sept. 15, 1905) Granting arrears of pension and increase to Daniel 1886: p. 1 (Mr. O'Farrell) Positive evidence of J.E. O'Hara's ineligibility, 1878. African American National Biography, accessed March 5, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (O'Hara, James Edward; lawyer, political figure; born 26 February 1844 in New York, United States; became a teacher and operated freedmen's primary schools; began to participate in politics, serving as engrossing clerk at the state constitutional convention of 1868; worked as a clerk in the U.S. Treasury Department and studied at Howard University; secured a license to practice law (1873); assumed a leading role in Republican politics; elected to the Halifax County Board of Commissioners (1874); elected to the state constitutional convention (1875); nominated to Congress (1878); claimed the Republican nomination for Congress and won election (1882-1886); offered a controversial amendment an Interstate Commerce Bill that all railroad passengers should be treated without discrimination (December 1884); briefly published a weekly newspaper, the Enfield Progress; moved to New Bern, North Carolina (1890); died 15 September 1905 in New Bern, North Carolina, United States)