James A. Lockhart
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James Alexander Lockhart was a United States Representative from North Carolina; he was born in Anson County, North Carolina, on June 2, 1850, and attended the common schools. Lockhart graduated from Trinity College, in Durham, North Carolina, in June 1873; he studied law in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar in 1874.
He settled in Wadesboro, North Carolina, where he practiced law; he was elected mayor of Wadesboro in 1875, and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1878; he served in the North Carolina State Senate in 1880.
Lockhart presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to June 5, 1896, when he was succeeded by Charles H. Martin, who contested his election.
He resumed his law practice in Wadesboro. He died in Charlotte, on December 24, 1905. He was buried in Eastview Cemetery, in Wadesboro.
