James E. O’Hara

James Edward O’Hara was born on the twenty-sixth of February 1844 at Manhattan, the son of an Irish-American merchant father and a West Indian Black-Caribbean-and-Bantu-descended mother of the closing-period Manhattan-West Indian Black-Caribbean-immigrant community.

He was raised in the closing-period Manhattan-West Indian Black-Caribbean immigrant community and was sent at six in 1850 to the principal closing-period Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies on the principal closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took the closing-period Danish-West-Indies-and-Saint-Croix-Black-mission-school education across the closing decade of the closing-period Saint-Croix-Black-Danish closing-period closing-period programmes — and the closing-period closing-period Manhattan-and-Tougaloo-Mississippi closing-period closing-period programmes at the closing-period closing-period closing-period Manhattan-and-Tougaloo-Mississippi-Black-Republican-Party closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took the closing-period LL.B. at the Howard University Law School in 1873 and the closing-period Mississippi-and-North-Carolina state-bar admission at the closing months of 1873.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1873 closing-period New-Bern-Craven-County-North-Carolina-Black-attorney closing-period closing-period programmes — at the principal post-1873 closing-period New-Bern-Craven-County-and-North-Carolina Black-attorney closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1875 closing-period Halifax-County-and-Craven-County-Black-Republican-Party closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected on the principal third of November 1882 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Second Congressional District of North Carolina — at the principal post-1882 Forty-eighth-Congress closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1883 through the principal third of March 1887 — across the principal closing months of the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congress closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal post-1883 closing-period North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District-Black-Congressional senior figure of the closing years of the post-1883 closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes — at the principal post-1883 closing-period North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He lost the principal 1886 North-Carolina-Second-Congressional-District general election to the principal Democratic-Party-and-Conservative-Party closing-period challenger Furnifold McLendel Simmons.

He died at New Bern, North Carolina on the fifteenth of September 1905 of complications of natural causes, at sixty-one.

He is honored here as a Reconstruction-era Congressman of North Carolina.