16 Facts About Jason Niles

Jason Niles was a lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician in the United States.

Jason Niles served as mayor and for one term as a US Representative from Mississippi from 1873 to 1875.

Jason Niles attended the local schools of Burlington, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont in 1836, and a master's degree in 1846.

Jason Niles taught school in Quebec, Ohio, and Tennessee, and later moved to Mississippi.

Jason Niles served as an anti-secession delegate to Mississippi's 1851 constitutional convention.

Jason Niles did not want to serve in the Confederate military, and arranged to have the son of a friend serve in Mississippi's state troops as a substitute.

Jason Niles was elected in May 1864, and served one term.

Jason Niles continued his pro-Union politics after the war; he was a delegate to Mississippi's constitutional conventions in 1865 and 1868.

Jason Niles served in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870.

In 1872, Jason Niles was elected as a Republican to the 43rd Congress.

Jason Niles served one term, March 4,1873 to March 3,1875.

From 1876 to 1880, Jason Niles was editor of the Kosciusko Chronicle newspaper.

Jason Niles died in Kosciusko, Mississippi, July 7,1894 and was interred at Kosciusko's City Cemetery.

In 1847, Niles married Harriet N McRee in Bedford County, Tennessee; she was the daughter of William Elliot McRee and Sarah McLean Houston.

Henry Clay Jason Niles served as a federal judge in Mississippi.

Jason Niles was the cousin of Thomas Brackett Reed, who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.