James Alexander Hemenway (March 8, 1860February 10, 1923) was a

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and Senator from Indiana. Born in

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, he attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the

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, commencing practice in Boonville in 1885. He was

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for the second judicial circuit of Indiana from 1886 to 1890 and was elected as a

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to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his resignation, effective March 3, 1905, at the close of the Fifty-eighth Congress, having been elected Senator. While in the House of Representatives, he was chairman of the Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-eighth Congress). Hemenway was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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and served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1909; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on University of the United States (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses). After the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Boonville. He donated generously to the Old Presbyterian Church in Boonville, which his family had attended for generations. He died in

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; interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Boonville. Hemenway is the namesake of the community of Hemenway, Missouri.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hemenway, James 1860 births 1923 deaths Indiana lawyers American prosecutors People from Warrick County, Indiana Republican Party United States senators from Indiana 19th-century American lawyers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana