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James Caldwell (30 November 1770 – 5 May 1838) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-OH 4) from 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1817, preceding Samuel Herrick.

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James Caldwell was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1770, and he settled in St. Clairsville, Ohio in 1799, opening a store in 1801. He became first president of the Belmont Bank of St. Clairsville and served in the State Senate from 1809 to 1813, in the US House of Representatives from 1813 to 1817, as an 1820 presidential elector for James Monroe, and as an 1824 elector for Henry Clay. He later moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where he died in 1838.

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