Background
James, Francis was born on April 4, 1799 in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania, United States.
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James, Francis was born on April 4, 1799 in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania, United States.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1825 and commenced practice in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
James was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-sixth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business during the Twenty-seventh Congress. He resumed the practice of his profession in West Chester, and served as chief burgess in 1850.
He died in West Chester in 1886.
Interment in Oakland Cemetery.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1834 to 1836.