# James Gholson > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/James_Gholson > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/James_Gholson.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gholson > Source revision: 1349668755 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American politician (1798–1848)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = James Herbert Gholson | image = | caption = | state1 = [Virginia](/source/Virginia) | district1 = [4th](/source/Virginia's_4th_congressional_district) | term1 = March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1835 | predecessor1 = [Mark Alexander](/source/Mark_Alexander_(politician)) | successor1 = [George Dromgoole](/source/George_Dromgoole) | office2 = Member of the [Virginia House of Delegates](/source/Virginia_House_of_Delegates) from [Brunswick County](/source/Brunswick_County%2C_Virginia) | term_start2 = December 6, 1830 | term_end2 = March 3, 1833 | preceded2 = [Peter J. Beasley](/source/Peter_J._Beasley) | alongside2 = [John E. Shell](/source/John_E._Shell), | succeeded2 = [Charles Turnbull](/source/Charles_Turnbull_(Virginia_politician)) | office3 = Member of the [Virginia House of Delegates](/source/Virginia_House_of_Delegates) from [Brunswick County](/source/Brunswick_County%2C_Virginia) | term_start3 = November 29, 1824 | term_end3 = November 30, 1828 | preceded3 = [Jesse Read](/source/Jesse_Read_(politician)) | alongside3 = [George Dromgoole](/source/George_Dromgoole), [James B. Mallory](/source/James_B._Mallory), | succeeded3 = [Peter J. Beasley](/source/Peter_J._Beasley) | birth_date = {{birth date text|1798}} | birth_place = [Gholsonville, Virginia](/source/Gholsonville%2C_Virginia) | death_date = {{death date and age|1848|7|2|1798}} | death_place = [Brunswick County, Virginia](/source/Brunswick_County%2C_Virginia) | resting_place = [Blandford Cemetery](/source/Blandford_Cemetery), [Petersburg, Virginia](/source/Petersburg%2C_Virginia) | party = [Anti-Jacksonian](/source/Anti-Jacksonian_Party_(United_States)) | spouse = Charlotte L. Carey | children = | website = | footnotes = | alma_mater = [Princeton College](/source/Princeton_University) | profession = [lawyer](/source/lawyer), [judge](/source/judge) }} '''James Herbert Gholson''' (1798{{spnd}}July 2, 1848) was a congressman, planter, lawyer and judge from [Virginia](/source/Virginia).Virginia BiographicalEncyclopedia ==Early and family life== Born in [Gholsonville](/source/Gholsonville%2C_Virginia), [Brunswick County, Virginia](/source/Brunswick_County%2C_Virginia) to William Gholson and his wife Mary Saunders. He had a brother [Thomas Saunders Gholson](/source/Thomas_Saunders_Gholson). Gholson was educated by tutors, then attended [Princeton College](/source/Princeton_University) and graduated in 1820. He married Charlotte L. Carey in Southampton, Virginia on November 22, 1827. ==Career== He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in [Percivals, Virginia](/source/Percivals%2C_Virginia). By 1830, his household included five white persons and 25 enslaved persons.1830 U.S. Federal Census, St. Andrews Parish, Brunswick, Virginia; no record of him appears in the 1820 census, unless he was the householder and slaveholder in Cumberland, Kentucky that year, or possibly because of digital misindexing. His uncle [Thomas Gholson Jr.](/source/Thomas_Gholson_Jr.) who died in 1816 had represented Brunswick County in the [Virginia General Assembly](/source/Virginia_General_Assembly) and later the U.S. House of Representatives, and James Herbert Gholson soon carried on the family tradition. Voters elected him as one of their part-time representatives in the [Virginia House of Delegates](/source/Virginia_House_of_Delegates), where he served from 1824 to 1828 and again from 1830 until 1833, when he was elected to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Congressman [John Claiborne](/source/John_Claiborne). Sixty percent were the enslaved Brunswick County. He spoke about Nat Turner in Virginia General Assembly. Elected as an [Anti-Jacksonian](/source/National_Republican_Party_(United_States)) to the [United States House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) in 1832, Gholson failed to win re-election, and his 1834 defeat by his sometimes co-delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates and unsuccessful opponent two years earlier, [George Dromgoole](/source/George_Dromgoole), marked the demise of the Whig party in Brunswick County. Afterwards, the Virginia General Assembly elected Gholson as a judge of the [circuit court](/source/circuit_court) for the [Brunswick](/source/Brunswick_County%2C_Virginia) circuit, and he served for many years despite a controversy the year before his death alleging partiality toward his brother, who would later serve in the [Second Confederate Congress](/source/Second_Confederate_Congress).{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cE6AQAAMAAJ&q=thomas+s.+gholson&pg=RA36-PA1 |title = Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia|year = 1846}} ==Death and legacy== Gholson died in Brunswick County on July 2, 1848, and was buried at [Blandford Cemetery](/source/Blandford_Cemetery) in Petersburg, Virginia. ==Electoral history== *'''1833'''; Gholson was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 37.62% of the vote, defeating Democrat George Coke Dromgoole and Independents William Osborne Goode and Alexander G. Knox. *'''1835'''; Gholson lost his re-election bid to Dromgoole. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{CongBio|G000148}} {{bioguide}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Virginia | district=4 | before=[Mark Alexander](/source/Mark_Alexander_(politician)) | after=[George Dromgoole](/source/George_Dromgoole) | years=1833–1835 }} {{s-end}} {{VirginiaRepresentatives04}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gholson, James}} Category:1798 births Category:1848 deaths Category:Owners of plantations in Virginia Category:Members of the Virginia House of Delegates Category:Virginia lawyers Category:Princeton University alumni Category:National Republican Party United States representatives from Virginia Category:19th-century American lawyers Category:19th-century Virginia state court judges Category:People from Brunswick County, Virginia Category:Burials at Blandford Cemetery Category:Virginia circuit court judges Category:19th-century United States representatives Category:19th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly {{Virginia-Representative-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [James Gholson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gholson) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gholson?action=history)). 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