James Bowen Everhart


James Bowen Everhart was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

James B. Everhart was born in the Boot, near West Chester, Pennsylvania. He attended Bolmars Academy in West Chester and was graduated from Princeton College in 1842. He studied law at Harvard University and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and went abroad and spent two years in study at the Universities of Berlin and Edinburgh. He returned to West Chester and engaged in the practice of law. During the American Civil War, Everhart served in Company B, Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1876 to 1882.

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