English, James Edward

Life Span
to
Full name
James Edward English
Place of Birth
New Haven, CT
Burial Place
New Haven, CT
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
4
Family
James English (father), Nancy Griswold English (mother), Caroline A. Fowler (first wife - died 1874), Anna Robinson Morris(second wife) 
Occupation
Politician
Businessman
Other
Other Occupation
Carpenter, Building Contractor
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Episcopalian
Political Parties
Democratic
Government
US Senate
US House of Representatives
Governor
State legislature
Date Event
Democrat James English defeats the sitting Republican governor in the Connecticut elections.
Emancipation
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Date Title
Theodore M. Pomeroy to Elizabeth L.W. Pomeroy, February 1, 1865
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