James Blair
U.S. Congressperson
1786 – 1834
Who was James Blair?
James Blair was a United States Representative from South Carolina. He was born in the Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster County, South Carolina to Sarah Douglass and William Blair. He engaged in planting and was also the sheriff of Lancaster District.
Blair was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821, to May 8, 1822, when he resigned. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1834.
Under date of December 24, 1833, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Blair "had knocked down and very severely beaten Duff Green, editor of the Telegraph..." Diary p. 434. He paid "three hundred dollars fine for beating and breaking the bones" of Green. op. cit., p. 450.
Under date of April 2, 1834, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Blair "shot himself last evening at his lodgings ... after reading part of an affectionate letter from his wife, to Governor Murphy, of Alabama who was alone in the chamber with him, and a fellow-lodger at the same house." op. cit. p. 434.
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- Born
- Sep 26, 1786
United States of America - Profession
- Lived in
- South Carolina
- Died
- Apr 1, 1834
Washington, D.C.
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on July 23, 2013
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