James Bishop (congressman)

He engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Brunswick, and was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1849 and 1850.

Bishop was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress, serving in office from March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress.

[1] After leaving Congress, he was prominent in the rubber trade in New York City.

He was chief of the bureau of labor statistics of New Jersey from 1878 to 1893 and was a resident of Trenton.

He died at Kemble Hall, near Morristown, New Jersey on May 10, 1895, and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery in North Brunswick.