James Dixon Roman
U.S. Congressperson
1809 – 1867
Who was James Dixon Roman?
James Dixon Roman was an American politician.
Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Roman attended the common schools and a private school at West Nottingham. He later moved to Cecil County, Maryland, and began to study law in Frederick. He was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Hagerstown.
Roman served as a member of the Maryland State Senate in 1847 and was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1847, to March 3, 1849. He was presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848 and on the Democratic ticket in 1856. He again resumed the practice of law in Hagerstown, and served as president of the Old Hagerstown Bank from 1851 until his death. He was also a member of the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. He died near Hagerstown, Maryland, and is interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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- Born
- Aug 11, 1809
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Hagerstown
- Died
- Jan 19, 1867
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on July 23, 2013
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