James Iver McKay (17 July 1792-14 September 1853) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NC 5) from 4 March 1831 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Edward Bishop Dudley and preceding Romulus Mitchell Saunders), from NC-6 from 4 March 1843 to 3 March 1847 (succeeding Archibald Hunter Arrington and preceding John Reeves Jones Daniel), and from NC-7 from 4 March 1847 to 3 March 1849 (succeeding Daniel and preceding William Shepperd Ashe).
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James Iver McKay was born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina in 1792, and he served as a US Attorney before serving in the General Assembly from 1815 to 1819, 1822, 1826, and 1830 and in the US House of Representatives from 1831 to 1849. He died in Goldsboro in 1853, and he willed his slaves to the American Colonization Society.