James Madison Porter
American politician
Died when: 69 years 309 days (838 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
James Madison Porter (January 6, 1793 – November 11, 1862) served as the 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College.
Porter began his career studying law in 1809 and later became a clerk in the prothonotary's office in an effort to manage a volunteer militia company at Fort Mifflin.
Porter was admitted to the bar in 1813 and later appointed to attorney general for Northampton County, Pennsylvania.He was a professor of jurisprudence and political economy at Lafayette College (1837-1852), a judge of the twelfth judicial district (1839), ad interim U.S.
Secretary of War under President John Tyler (1843), and was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1849.
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