| Birth: | Apr. 2 | | Death: | Jan. 16, 1904 | 
Attorney. Son of Frank Blair, noted St. Louis attorney, James was also a well-known lawyer. As Vice President of the Police Board, he had cleaned up a badly managed and politically controlled department. He had also been Vice President of the Bar Association. He and his wife were asked to serve in two of the top positions to help prepare for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. However, by late 1903, after a series of newspaper articles exposing James as having defrauding the trustee and embezzling over three hundred thousand dollars from a group of Philadelphis investors, he and his family fled to Florida. By mid-Jauary 1904, just months before the fair opened, James killed himself.
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Bellefontaine Cemetery
Saint Louis
St. Louis city
Missouri, USA
Plot: Block 13, Lot 298 |
Created by: Connie Nisinger
Record added: Apr 25, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7387514 |
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