BLACK, JAMES, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Newport, Perry County, Pa., March 6, 1793;
attended the common schools;
engaged in mercantile pursuits;
member of the State house of representatives in 1830 and 1831;
elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jesse Miller and served from December 5, 1836, to March 3, 1837;
associate judge of Perry County in 1842 and 1843;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847);
State collector of tolls on the Juniata Canal;
died in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pa., on June 21, 1872;
interment in New Bloomfield Cemetery.
