James Mann was an American politician. He served in the Maine

Maine

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 legislature and was elected to the United States House of Representatives

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 for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district

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, but died just five weeks into his term in Congress.

Mann was a member of the Maine House of Representatives

Maine House of Representatives

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 (1849–50) and Maine Senate

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 (1851–53). He was a major in the Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

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, serving as a paymaster

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. After the war, he remained in New Orleans as a Treasury

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 agent. He was elected as part of Louisiana's next congressional delegation after the state was readmitted to representation; he took his seat on July 18, 1868, and died on August 26, 1868. See also John Willis Menard

John Willis Menard

John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress.Menard was born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, to parents of Louisiana Creole descent from New Orleans who were free people of color. He may have been related to Michel Branamour Menard, a French-Canadian fur trader...

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External links

• "Funeral of the Hon. James Mann in New-Orleans", New York Times, August 28, 1868 (subscription required)