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James F. Simmons. Library of Congress description: "Hon. Jas. F. Simmons"
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.02653. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 5176 A

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Date

between 1855 and 1865
Author
Creator/Artist
Name
Brady, Mathew
Date of birth/death ca. 1823 15 January or 16 January 1896
Location of birth/death Warren County, New York New York City
Work period 1844 - ca. 1887
Work location
New York City and Washington, D.C.
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(Reusing this image)

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English: James Fowler Simmons ( September 10, 1795 – July 10, 1864) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born on a farm near Little Compton, he attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812. He was employed in various manufacturing concerns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and engaged in the manufacture of yarn at Simmonsville in 1822. He moved to Johnston in 1827 and resumed the manufacture of yarns and engaged in agricultural pursuits; he was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1828 to 1841, and was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1841, to March 3, 1847. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 and for election in 1850 to the United States Senate; while in the Senate, he was chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Printing (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses).

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