James Thomas Begg

Republican Representative of Ohio's 13th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

February 16, 1877 (86 years old)

Birthday

March 26, 1963

Death

Served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1929.
Born on a farm near Lima, Ohio, and attended public and high schools in Columbus Grove and Lima.
Graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1903.
Worked as an educator, including roles as a teacher and superintendent of public schools in Columbus Grove, Ironton, and Sandusky, Ohio.
Employed as a campaign director and lecturer for the American City Bureau of New York, focusing on chamber-of-commerce work from 1917 to 1919.
Engaged in banking and worked as a business consultant and dairy farmer after his political career.
Was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Seventy-eighth Congress in 1942.
Moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1959 and lived there until his death in 1963.
Interred in Garfield-Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.