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)
Source Citation
"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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