James S. Lithgow

James S. Lithgow

James Smith Lithgow (November 29, 1812February 21, 1902) was the sixteenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from January 2, 1866 to February 14, 1867. He was born in Pittsburgh and apprenticed as a coppersmith there.

He moved to Louisville in 1832 and worked various jobs before starting "Wallace & Lithgow", a metals company on Market Street in 1836. The business was successful, and made Lithgow wealthy. After the death of Wallace in 1861, the company became "J.S. Lithgow and Co." and built its headquarters at what became the Board of Trade Building, initially one of the largest and most expensive buildings in Downtown Louisville. Lithgow lost both the building and his business in the Panic of 1873, but he regained his fortune with a new company, "Lithgow Manufacturing Co.".

A Democrat, Lithgow was elected to the City Council in 1849, and was a member of the convention to draft a new city charter in 1866. After Philip Tomppert was impeached by the city council in 1866, that same body elected Lithgow mayor. He resigned when a state appeals court reinstated Tomppert on February 14 1867.

He had eight children with wife Hannah Cragg, and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.

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