California State Officials Biographies 1911

JAMES CARSON NEEDHAM

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS
Sixth District
Counties: Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, 
Santa Cruz, and Stanislaus (9 counties). Population (1910) 246,983

JAMES CARSON NEEDHAM (Republican), of Modesto, was born September 17, 1864, in 
Carson City, Nevada, in an emigrant wagon, his parents being at the time en 
route across the plains to California; educated in the public schools of 
California, the San Jose High School, the University of the Pacific at San Jose, 
and the law department of the University of Michigan; began the practice of law 
in November, 1889, at Modesto, where he has ever since resided; in 1890 was 
nominated by the Republican party for State Senator, but, the district being 
overwhelmingly Democratic, was defeated; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses, 
and reelected to the Sixty-second Congress. 
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913