James McClellan Boal[a] (c. 1811–1862) was an American artist, trader, and politician who served in the Minnesota Territorial Council and House of Representatives from 1849 until 1853.
He then traveled to St. Paul and established himself as a house and sign painter.
His fellow Whig[1] partisans were apparently so happy he had won that they paraded him through the streets of the city with a chariot made from an oxcart.
He was also appointed as the territorial adjutant general by Governor Alexander Ramsey from 1849 until 1853.
[2] Boal would go on to become a founding member of the Republican Party of Minnesota in 1855.