James Wallace Borden (February 5, 1810 – April 25, 1882)[1] was an American jurist in Indiana and diplomat.
He ran the federal land office in Fort Wayne and was elected as judge of the 12th district of Indianain 1841.
The king made a welcoming speech,[5] but the situation was a tense peace between Scottish-born Hawaii foreign minister Robert Crichton Wyllie and US Secretary of State Lewis Cass.
[7] President Abraham Lincoln appointed Thomas J. Dryer to be the new Commissioner to Hawaii, and Borden was recalled on June 8, 1861.
[3][8] His son George Pennington Borden (1844–1925) enlisted in the American Civil War, graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1864, and retired as a brigadier general in 1907.