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James Blair (September 26 1786 – April 1 1834) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. He was born in the Waxhaw settlement Lancaster County South Carolina to Sarah Douglass and William Blair. He engaged in planting and was also the sheriff of Lancaster District.Blair was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and served from March 4 1821 to May 8 1822 when he resigned.

active years end date
1822-05-08, 1834-04-01
active years start date
1821-03-04, 1829-03-04
birth date
1786-09-26
birth place
Lancaster County South Carolina, Waxhaws
death date
1834-04-01, 1850-06-20
death place
Washington D.C.
occupation
Plantations in the American South
other party
Jacksonian democracy
party
Democratic-Republican Party
region
South Carolina, South Carolina's 8th congressional district, South Carolina's 9th congressional district
successor
Richard Irvine Manning I, Starling Tucker

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