James Calvin McDearmon was an American

United States

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 politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives

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 for the 9th congressional district

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 of Tennessee

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. He was born on June 13, 1844, in New Canton, Virginia

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 in Buckingham County. He moved with his parents to Gibson County, Tennessee in 1846. He attended Andrew College

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 in Trenton, Tennessee

Trenton, Tennessee

Trenton is a city in Gibson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 4,264 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Gibson County, and its third largest city.-Geography:Trenton is located at ....

 from 1858 to 1861. He entered the Confederate Army in April 1862 and served throughout the war in Cheatham's division, Army of Tennessee

Army of Tennessee

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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar

Bar association

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 in 1867, and commenced practice in Trenton, Tennessee.

He was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses. He served from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1869. He resumed the practice of his profession and died in Trenton, Tennessee in Gibson County on July 19, 1902. He was interred

Burial

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in Oakwood Cemetery.

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