James McKinney was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born in Oquawka, Illinois

Oquawka, Illinois

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, McKinney attended the public schools and was graduated from Monmouth (Illinois) College in 1874.
He served as president of the Aledo (Illinois) Bank 1892-1907.
He served as member of the Republican State central committee 1894-1906.
He served as delegate to the Republican State convention in 1896 and 1900.
He was appointed by Governor Yates in 1901 a member of the State railroad and warehouse commission, but resigned in 1902.
He served as president of the Aledo Board of Education in 1902 and 1903.

McKinney was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-ninth

59th United States Congress

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 Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin F. Marsh.
He was reelected to the Sixtieth

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, Sixty-first

61st United States Congress

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, and Sixty-second

62nd United States Congress

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 Congresses and served from November 7, 1905, to March 3, 1913.
He declined renomination in 1912.
He served as president of the Illinois State Bankers' Association in 1908 and 1909.
He engaged in the real estate loan business in Aledo, Illinois

Aledo, Illinois

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, until his death in that city on September 29, 1934.
He was interred in Aledo Cemetery.