Folger
CHARLES JAMES, an American jurist; born in Nantucket, Mass., April 16, 1818; settled in Geneva, N. Y., in 1831; was graduated at Hobart College in 1836; and was admitted to the FOLKESTONE bar in Albany, N. Y., in 1839. He became judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ontario county in 1843; was a member of the State Senate in 1861- 1869; elected associate judge of the State Court of Appeals in 1871; succeeded to the chief justiceship of that court in 1880; and was secretary of the United States Treasury in 1881-1884. In November, 1882, he was the Republican candidate for governor of New York, but was defeated by Grover Cleveland. He died in Geneva, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1884.