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Senate Years of Service: 1861-1867 Party: Democrat
McDOUGALL, James Alexander, a Representative and a Senator from California; born in Bethlehem,
N.Y., November 19, 1817; attended the Albany, N.Y., public schools; studied
law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Cook County, Ill., in 1837;
attorney general of Illinois 1842-1846; made explorations of the southwestern
part of the United States; finally settled in San Francisco; attorney general
of California 1850-1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress
(March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for renomination in 1854;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4,
1861, to March 3, 1867; was not a candidate for reelection; died in Albany,
N.Y., September 3, 1867; interment in Lone Mountain Cemetery (Calvary
subdivision), San Francisco, Calif.; reinterred in 1942 in Holy Cross Cemetery,
Colma, Calif.
BibliographyBuchanan, Russell. James A. McDougall, A Forgotten Senator.
California Historical Society Quarterly 15 (September 1936):
199-212; Farr, James. Not Exactly a Hero: James Alexander McDougall in the
United States Senate.
California History 65 (June 1986): 104-13, 152-53.
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