James Madison Gaylord (May 29,1811 –June 14,1874) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1851 to 1853.
Born in Zanesville,Ohio,Gaylord moved to McConnelsville,Ohio,in 1818. He attended the common schools and the Ohio University at Athens. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was appointed clerk of the court of common pleas in 1834.
Gaylord was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4,1851 –March 3,1853). At the expiration of his term in Congress he was elected probate judge. He was appointed deputy United States marshal in 1860.
Gaylord was elected Justice of the Peace in 1865,and by successive reelections was continued in that office until his death in McConnelsville,Ohio,June 14,1874. He was interred in McConnelsville Cemetery.
McConnelsville is a village in and the county seat of Morgan County, Ohio, United States, on the east bank of the Muskingum River. Located 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Zanesville and 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Marietta, the population was 1,667 at the 2020 census.
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