New York U.S. Congressman James Humphrey dies suddenly at his home in Brooklyn.

James Humphrey, the sitting Republican U.S. Congressman from New York's third congressional district, died at his home in Brooklyn just after midnight.  He had been suffering from a debilitating disease for several years but died suddenly.  His seat was filled later with the Brooklyn Democrat, James Ward Hunter.  Humphrey was fifty-four years old.  (By John Osborne)

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"Humphrey, James," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 393.

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