
James Gorrall Blair (1 January 1825-1 March 1904) was a member of the US House of Representatives (LR-MO 8) from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1873, succeeding John F. Benjamin and preceding Abram Comingo.
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James Gorrall Blair was born in Cynthiana, Kentucky in 1825, and he moved to Monticello, Missouri in 1840. He served as a circuit court clerk from 1848 to 1854, became a lawyer in Canton in 1854, became a staunch abolitionist Democratic during the American Civil War, became a moderate Republican during Reconstruction, defected to the Liberal Republican Party, argued in favor of legalized polygamous marriages for Mormons, and returned to the Democratic Party before dying in 1904.