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Flanagan, James Winright

lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1805, in Albemarle, Va. He was a member of the state legislature in 1851 and 1852; and of the senate in 1855 and 1856. He was an elector in 1857; and a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1866 and 1868. He was elected to congress for the state at large in 1869; elected lieutenantgovernor in 1869; and was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1870, and ending in 1875.