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TROTTER, James Fisher, jurist, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, 5 November, 1802 ; died in Holly Springs, Mississippi, 9 March, 1866. He emigrated with his parents to eastern Tennessee at an early age, received a careful education, and in 1820 was admitted to the bar. He settled in Hamilton, Monroe County, Mississippi, in 1823, and soon established a reputation as a constitutional lawyer. After serving several terms in the legislature, he was chosen, in 1837i a judge of the circuit court of his district, and in 1838 succeeded Judge John Black in the United States senate, haying been chosen as a Democrat. After serving from February to December of that year, he resigned to accept a seat in the court of appeals of Mississippi, which he held till 1840. He then resumed his profession, and was vice-chancellor of the northern district of the state in 1855-'7, and professor of law in the University of Mississippi in 1860-'2. He ardently supported the southern cause during the civil war, but subsequently did much to promote peaceable submission to the United States authorities. He became a circuit judge in 1866.
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