James Burnie Beck (13 February 1822 – 3 May 1890) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-KY 7) from 4 March 1867 to 3 March 1875 (succeeding George S. Shanklin and preceding Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn) and as a US Senator from Kentucky from 4 March 1877 to 3 May 1890 (succeeding John W. Stevenson and preceding John G. Carlisle).
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James Burnie Beck was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland in 1822, and he emigrated to Wyoming County, New York in 1838. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1843, and he practiced law with John C. Breckinridge until the start of the American Civil War. Beck served in the US House of Representatives from 1867 to 1876 and in the US Senate from 1877 to 1890, and he was a white supremacist who opposed civil rights for African-Americans. He died in Washington DC in 1890, the son of George T. Beck.