James S. Havens

James Smith Havens was a Representative from New York who was born in Weedsport, Cayuga County, N.Y., May 28, 1859. He attended the public schools and Monroe Collegiate Institute, Elbridge, N.Y. and graduated from Yale College in 1884. He moved to Rochester, N.Y., the same year and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James B. Perkins and served from April 19, 1910, to March 3, 1911. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1910. He resumed the practice of his profession in Rochester, N.Y.; declined the Democratic nomination for mayor of Rochester in 1913. He was vice president and secretary of the Eastman Kodak Co., and head of its legal department from 1919 until his death in Rochester, N.Y., February 27, 1927; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.

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