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          Life Summary
Full name
              James  Fowler Simmons
          Place of Birth
              
          Burial Place
              
          Birth Date Certainty
              Exact
          Death Date Certainty
              Exact
          Gender
              Male
          Race
              White
          Sectional choice
              North
          Origins
              Free State
          No. of Spouses
              2
          No. of Children
              1
          Family
              Davis Simmons (father), Elizabeth Cook Simmons (mother), Eliza Randall (first wife), Sarah Scott Whipple (second wife)
Occupation
          Politician
          Farmer or Planter
          Businessman
              Relation to Slavery
          White non-slaveholder
              Political Parties
          Whig
          Republican
              Government
          US Senate
          State legislature