James Robert Claiborne (June 22, 1882 – February 16, 1944) was an American lawyer and politician from

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. He represented Missouri in the

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from 1933 until 1937. Claiborne was born in St. Louis, attended the public schools and was graduated from the

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of the

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at Columbia in 1907. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in St. Louis. He lectured in the law school at St. Louis University for several years. He was an unsuccessful candidate for judge of the circuit court of the eighth judicial district in 1924; elected as a

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to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936; engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis until his death in 1944, and is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery there.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Claiborne, James Robert 1882 births 1944 deaths University of Missouri alumni Politicians from St. Louis Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri 20th-century American politicians