{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = James Manahan | image = James Manahan (Minnesota Congressman).jpg | caption = Manahan in 1914. Frontispiece of his 1933 autobiography, ''Trials of a Lawyer'' | birth_date = {{birth date|1866|3|12}} | birth_place = Fillmore County, Minnesota, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1932|1|8|1866|3|12}} | death_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. | state = Minnesota | district = {{ushr|MN|AL|at-large}} | term_start = March 4, 1913 | term_end = March 3, 1915 | preceded = ''District created'' | succeeded = ''District abolished'' | party = Republican | profession = Attorney | alma_mater = University of Minnesota Law School }}

'''James Manahan''' (March 12, 1866 – January 8, 1932) was a U.S. representative from Minnesota.

Manahan was born near Chatfield in Fillmore County, Minnesota, to Irish immigrant parents.<ref> {{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ9N-X56 |title= United States Census, 1880 |website= FamilySearch |access-date=March 15, 2018 }}</ref> He graduated from the Normal School of Winona, Minnesota, in 1886. For two years, he worked as a school teacher in Graceville. He later attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, and eventually earned his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1889. Having been admitted to the bar the same year, he began practicing law in St. Paul, later relocating his practice to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1895. He moved back to Minneapolis in 1905, and practiced law there until 1912, when he was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1915). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1914, and resumed his law practice. He became involved with the Nonpartisan League and served as a legal advisor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morlan |first=Robert Loren |date=1955 |title=Political prairie fire : the Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/230685 |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=www.worldcat.org |page=226 |language=en |oclc=230685}}</ref> He died in St. Paul in 1932.

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