James Hall Huling

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James Hall Huling was a Republican businessman and politician from West Virginia who served as a United States Representative in the 54th United States Congress. Congressman Huling was born in Williamsport in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1844. He died April 23, 1918.

He went to school at Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport. He served in the Pennsylvania Cavalry in 1863. He engaged in the lumber business and moved to West Virginia in 1870He left the lumber business in 1874. He served as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia from 1884 to 1888 but declined a renomination. He won election in 1894 as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897). He returned to business in Charleston, where he died April 23, 1918. He was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery.

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