James William Trimble: Difference between revisions

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|state1 =[[Arkansas]]

|district1 =[[Arkansas's 3rd congressional district|3rd]]

|term_start1 =January 3, 1945

|term_end1 =January 3, 1967

|predecessor1 =[[J. William Fulbright]]

|successor1 =[[John Paul Hammerschmidt]]

|office2 =Prosecuting attorney for the 4th Judicial District of Arkansas

|term_start3 =1938

|term_end3 =1944

|birth_place = [[Osage, Arkansas|Osage]], [[Arkansas]], U.S.

|death_place =[[Eureka Springs, Arkansas|Eureka Springs]], Arkansas, U.S.

'''James William Trimble''' (February 3, 1894 – March 10, 1972) was a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Arkansas]], having served from 1945 to 1967. He was the first Democrat in Arkansas since [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] to lose a congressional race to a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. Trimble was unseated in the 1966 [[general election]] by state GOP chairman [[John Paul Hammerschmidt]] of [[Harrison, Arkansas|Harrison]] in [[Boone County, Arkansas|Boone County]], who won election on the ticket headed by [[governor of Arkansas|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Winthrop Rockefeller]].

During [[World War I]], he served in the [[United States Army]] as a [[private (rank)|private]] and was assigned to the Adjutant General's Office in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]. From 1920 to 1928, he was a county official of Carroll County. He served as prosecuting attorney of the 4th Judicial Circuit of Arkansas from 1930to1938. He served as judge of the 4th Judicial Circuit of Arkansas from 1938 to 1944, when he was elected to the U.S. House.

Trimble was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[79th United States Congress|Seventy-ninth]] and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1967). In the 1944 [[general election]] he defeated the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Tom Sullins of [[Fayetteville, Arkansas|Fayetteville]], 63.3 to 36.7 percent. In 1956, Trimble defeated the Republican [[William L. Spicer]] of [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]], later the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, by a vote of 61-39 percent. He was a signatory to the 1956 [[Southern Manifesto]] that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]''.

Trimble resided in Berryville and died in [[Eureka Springs, Arkansas|Eureka Springs]]. He is interred at Berryville Memorial Park in Berryville.

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