James M. Elam

James Mason Elam (1796–1856) was a veteran of the War of 1812 and fought the Barbary Pirates.

Guerriere under the command of Captain Stephen Decatur, he was part of the crew that went on in 1815 to attack the Barbary Pirates off the coast of Algeria.

He ran unsuccessfully as a Whig for the United States House of Representatives in the Third District of Louisiana against John Bennett Dawson in 1843.

[1] Later, his son, James Essex Elam was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

James M. Elam died on November 7, 1856, and was buried in the family plot in the Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge.

James M. Elam was a Whig politician in the 1840s from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.