James Matlack

{{prose|date=March 2017}} '''James Matlack''' (January 11, 1775{{spaced ndash}}January 16, 1840) born in Woodbury, New Jersey, was a Representative from New Jersey.

January 11, 1775; attended the common schools; interested in various business enterprises; owned slaves;<ref>{{cite web|title=West Jersey History Project|url=http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/docs/gloucesterrecs/slavery/|work=Gloucester County Slavery Records|publisher=Gloucester County Historical Society|accessdate=April 6, 2011}}</ref> justice of the peace in 1803, 1808, 1813, 1816, and 1820; surrogate in 1815; chairman of the township committee; judge of the court of common pleas of Gloucester County 1806–1817; member of the board of freeholders 1812–1815, 1819–1821, and 1828; member of the New Jersey Legislative Council in 1817 and 1818; elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825); was not a candidate for renomination in 1824; affiliated with the Whig Party when it was formed; resumed business interests; died in Woodbury, New Jersey, January 16, 1840; interment in Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, New Jersey.

== References == {{reflist}} {{refbegin}} * public domain website of Bioguide of US Congress. {{refend}}

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