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Trotter, James Fisher

educator, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 5, 1802, in Brunswick county, Va. He settled in Hamilton, Monroe county, Miss., in 1823, and soon established a reputation as a constitutional lawyer. After serving several terms in the legislature, he was chosen, in 1837, a judge of the circuit court of his district, and in 1838 succeeded Judge John Black in the United States senate, having been chosen as a democrat. After serving from February to December of that year, he resigned to accept a seat in the court of appeals of Mississippi, which he held till 1840. He then resumed his profession, and was vice-chancellor of the northern district of the state in 1855-57, and professor of law in the university of Mississippi in 1860-62.

He died March 9, 1866, in Holly Springs, Miss.