James Perry Conner

James Perry Conner (January 27, 1851 - March 19, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa.

Biography

Born in Delaware County, Indiana, Conner attended the Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1873.He was admitted to the bar and practiced.He served as district attorney of the thirteenth judicial district of Iowa 1880-1884. Circuit judge of the thirteenth judicial district in 1884.He served as district judge of the sixteenth judicial district in 1886.He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892.

Conner was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan P. Dolliver.He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 4, 1900, to March 3, 1909.He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1908 for reelection to the Sixty-first Congress.He resumed the practice of law in Denison, Iowa, where he died March 19, 1924.He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.

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