Background
Gerry, James was born on August 14, 1796 in near Rising Sun, Maryland, United States.
United States representative politician
Gerry, James was born on August 14, 1796 in near Rising Sun, Maryland, United States.
Graduate West Nottingham Academy. Studied medicine U. Maryland.
He pursued an academic course and was graduated from West Nottingham Academy. He studied medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland, and commenced practice in Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, in 1824. Gerry was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses.
He continued the practice of medicine until 1870, when he retired.
He died in Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania, in 1873. Interment in Lutheran Cemetery.
Member United States House