James C. Auchincloss

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James Coats Auchincloss (January 19, 1885 in New York City – October 2, 1976 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American business and political figure, serving eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1943–1965 as a Republican from the 3rd congressional district of New Jersey.

Auchincloss attended the Cutler School in New York City, and the Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts; graduated from Yale University in 1908; engaged in financial and stock brokerage business in New York City 1908-1940; a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, 1921-1938; served in the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, 1909-1913; during World War I served as captain, Military Intelligence; deputy police commissioner of New York City; founder, treasurer, president, and chairman of the board of the New York Better Business Bureau; member of the Rumson, New Jersey borough council, 1930-1937; mayor of Rumson, N.J., 1938-1943.

He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1965); was not a candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress.

He died in Alexandria, Virginia, aged 91 and was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York City.