James Noble | |
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| United States Senator fromIndiana | |
| In office December 11, 1816 – February 26, 1831 | |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Robert Hanna |
| Member of theIndiana House of Representatives | |
| In office 1816 | |
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| Born | December 16, 1785 |
| Died | February 26, 1831(1831-02-26) (aged 45) |
| Party | Democratic-Republican (until 1824) National Republican Party (1824-1831) |
James Noble (December 16, 1785 – February 26, 1831) was the firstU.S. senator from theU.S. state ofIndiana.
Noble was born inClarke County, Virginia nearBerryville, and moved with his parents toCampbell County, Kentucky, when he was 10. There he studied law and he became an attorney, after which he moved to Indiana and settled inBrookville around 1808.
Once settled in Indiana he became a ferryboat operator, a judge and a member of the state's firstconstitutional convention, in 1816, as a delegate fromFranklin County.
He was elected to the first session of the Indiana State House of Representatives in 1816.
He was elected as aCrawford factionDemocratic Republican (later ananti-Jacksonian Democrat) to the United States Senate in 1816. He was reelected to two more terms and served from December 11, 1816, until his death in 1831.
While in the Senate he was chairman of theU.S. Senate Committee on Pensions for the15th,16th,17th,18th and20th Congresses, and chairman of theU.S. Committee on the Militia for the 16th and 17th Congresses.
He died inWashington, D.C., and is buried in theCongressional Cemetery.
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