James W. Grimes

James W. Grimes

Infobox Senator
name=James Wilson Grimes



width=200px
jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Iowa
party=Whig, Republican
term=March 4 1859ndash December 6 1869
preceded=George W. Jones
succeeded=James B. Howell
date of birth=birth date|1816|10|20|mf=y
place of birth=Deering, New Hampshire
date of death=death date and age|1872|2|7|1816|10|20|mf=y
place of death=Burlington, Iowa
spouse=
religion=
profession=Politician, Lawyer
footnotes=

James Wilson Grimes (born October 20 1816, Deering, New Hampshirendash d. February 7 1872, Burlington, Iowa) was an American politician, serving as the Whig governor of and senator from Iowa.

Grimes graduated from Hampton Academy and attended Dartmouth College. He studied law; moved west and commenced practice in the 'Black Hawk Purchase', Wisconsin Territory, afterward the site of Burlington, Iowa. He also engaged in agriculture. Grimes served as a member of the Iowa Territorial House of Representatives 1838–1839, 1843ndash 1844. He served as Governor of Iowa 1854ndash 1858;

Grimes was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1859 and reelected in 1865 He served from March 4 1859, until December 6 1869, when he resigned due to ill health.

He served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (37th and 38th Congresses), the Committee on Naval Affairs (39th through 41st Congresses).

In 1861 Grimes was a member of the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending Civil War.

During President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, Grimes broke party ranks, along with six other Republican senators, and in a courageous act of political suicide, voted for acquital. These seven Republican senators were disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated in order to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence.

Senators William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, James W. Grimes, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle [ [http://law.jrank.org/pages/13490/Andrew-Johnson-Trial.html "Andrew Johnson Trial: The Consciences of Seven Republicans Save Johnson".] ] , and Edmund G. Ross of Kansas, who provided the decisive vote [ [http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/john.htm "The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868".] ] , defied their party and public opinion and voted against impeachment.

Grimes died in Burlington, Iowa on February 7 1872, aged 55. He buried in the Aspen Grove cemetery, in Burlington, Iowa.

References

External links

*http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWgrimes.htm
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000475 bioguide.congress.gov: James Wilson Grimes]


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