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Grimes, James Wilson

governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 1816, in Deering, N. H. In 1838 he was elected to the general assembly of the territory of Iowa, to which he was frequently re-elected. He was governor of the state of Iowa from 1854 to 1858; and in 1859 was elected a senator in congress from that state for six years. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861; was re-elected to the senate for the term commencing in 1865, and ending in 1871.

He died Feb. 7, 1872, in Burlington, Iowa.