James Herbert Gholson (1798 – July 2, 1848) was a nineteenth-century congressman, planter, lawyer and judge from Virginia.
[1] Born in Gholsonville, Brunswick County, Virginia to William Gholson and his wife Mary Saunders.
Elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1832, Gholson failed to win re-election, and his 1834 defeat by his sometimes co-delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates and unsuccessful opponent two years earlier, George Dromgoole, marked the demise of the Whig party in Brunswick County.
[3] Gholson died in Brunswick County on July 2, 1848, and was buried at Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress