James Dellet

James Dellet was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama. He was born on February 18, 1788 in Camden, New Jersey. He moved to Columbia, South Carolina with his parents in 1800. In 1810, he graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and practiced. He moved to Alabama in 1818, settled in Claiborne and continued the practice of law. He worked with William B. Travis.

In 1819, he was elected to the first Alabama House of Representatives under state government. He served as its secretary, and he was re-elected in both 1821 and 1825. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in 1833, but he was later elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress. He served from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1841, and from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845 after he was again elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress. He resumed the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died on December 21, 1848 in Claiborne, Alabama in Monroe County. He was interred in a private cemetery at Claiborne.