Background
Everhart, James Bowen was born on July 26, 1821 in near West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Everhart.
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Everhart, James Bowen was born on July 26, 1821 in near West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Everhart.
He attended Bolmar’s Academy in West Chester and was graduated from Princeton College in 1842. He studied law at Harvard University and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and went abroad and spent two years in study at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh. He returned to West Chester and engaged in the practice of law. During the American Civil War, Everhart served in Company B, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia.
Everhart was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886. He resumed the practice of law and died in West Chester in 1888.
Interment in Oakland Cemetery, near West Chester.
Member Pennsylvania Senate, 1876-1882. Member United States House of Representatives (Republican) from Pennsylvania, 48th-49th congresses, 1883-1887.