James Lockwood (Connecticut politician)
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Other people|James Lockwood|James Lockwood (disambiguation){{!}}James Lockwood}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=James Lockwood
|office=Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk[https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&q=%22James+Lockwood&pg=PA78 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut]
|term_start=May 1721
|term_end=October 1721
|predecessor=Joseph Platt,
James Brown
|alongside=Joseph Platt
|successor=
|term_start2=May 1722
|term_end2=October 1722
|predecessor2=
|alongside2=John Benedict
|successor2=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Hanford
|term_start3=October 1723
|term_end3=May 1724
|predecessor3=
|alongside3=Samuel Comstock
|successor3=Eliphalet Lockwood,
Matthew Gregory
|term_start4=October 1724
|term_end4=May 1725
|predecessor4=Eliphalet Lockwood,
Matthew Gregory
|alongside4=Joseph Platt
|successor4=John Benedict
|term_start5=May 1726
|term_end5=October 1726
|predecessor5=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
|alongside5=Thomas Fitch
|successor5=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
|term_start6=May 1727
|term_end6=October 1727
|predecessor6=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
|alongside6=Thomas Fitch
|successor6=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
|term_start7=May 1729
|term_end7=October 1729
|predecessor7=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
|alongside7=Thomas Fitch
|successor7=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
|term_start8=May 1732
|term_end8=October 1733
|predecessor8=Joseph Platt,
John Betts Jr.
|alongside8=Joseph Platt
|successor8=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Hanford
|term_start9=May 1735
|term_end9=May 1736
|predecessor9=Joseph Platt,
Daniel Hoyt
|alongside9=Samuel Hanford
|successor9=Samuel Hanford,
Samuel Fitch
|term_start10=May 1738
|term_end10=October 1738
|predecessor10=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Hanford
|alongside10=John Marvin
|successor10=Joseph Platt,
Joseph Comstock
|term_start11=October 1739
|term_end11=May 1741
|predecessor11=Joseph Platt,
John Betts, Jr.
|alongside11=Samuel Cluckston,
Thomas Benedict
|successor11=John Betts, Jr.,
John Belding, Jr.
|term_start12=October 1742
|term_end12=May 1743
|predecessor12=John Betts, Jr.
|alongside12=Samuel Fitch
|successor12=Samuel Fitch,
John Betts, Jr.
|term_start13=May 1746
|term_end13=October 1746
|predecessor13=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Fitch
|alongside13=Samuel Fitch
|successor13=Joseph Platt,
Samuel Fitch
|term_start14=October 1748
|term_end14=May 1749
|predecessor14=Samuel Fitch,
Elnathan Hanford
|alongside14=Joseph Platt, Jr.
|successor14=Joseph Platt, Jr.,
Nehemiah Mead
|term_start15=October 1749
|term_end15=May 1750
|predecessor15=Joseph Platt, Jr.,
Nehemiah Mead
|alongside15=Joseph Platt, Jr.
|successor15=Samuel Fitch,
Joseph Platt, Jr.
|term_start16=October 1751
|term_end16=May 1752
|predecessor16=Joseph Platt, Jr.,
Samuel Fitch
|alongside16=David Lambert
|successor16=Joseph Platt, Jr.,
Samuel Fitch
|birth_date={{birth date|1683|04|21}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=6cwGAwAAQBAJ&dq=norwalk+trainband&pg=PA48 Colonial and revolutionary history of the Lockwood family in America][https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22James+Lockwood%22&pg=PA291 Norwalk: v. 1]
|birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
|death_date={{death date and age|1769|05|05|1683|04|21}}
|death_place=
|restingplace=Pine Island Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut
|residence=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
|religion=
|occupation=
|spouse=Lydia Smith (daughter of Samuel Smith) (m. October 23, 1707)
|children=Lydia Lockwood (died in infancy), Hannah Lockwood Rogers, Reverend James Lockwood, Lydia Lockwood Keeler, Job Lockwood, John Lockwood, Reverend Samuel Lockwood
|allegiance=
|rank=Colonel
|unit=North Company of the Norwalk Trainband
|battles=
}}
James Lockwood (April 21, 1683 – May 5, 1769) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony. He was the youngest son of Ephraim Lockwood and Mercy St. John and the brother of Eliphalet Lockwood.
Lockwood served in the following sessions of the House:
- May 1721
- May 1722
- October 1723
- October 1724
- May 1726
- May 1727
- May 1729
- May and October 1732
- May 1733
- May and October 1735
- May 1738
- October 1739
- May and October 1740
- October 1742
- May 1746
- October 1748
- October 1749
- October 1751
He was appointed a justice of the peace by the General Assembly from 1744 to 1756.
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Connecticut House of Representatives
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Connecticut House of Representatives
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|years=October 1739 – May 1741}}
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Connecticut House of Representatives
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Connecticut House of Representatives
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|years=May 1746 – October 1746}}
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Connecticut House of Representatives
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|before2=Elnathan Hanford
|with=Joseph Platt, Jr.
|after=Joseph Platt, Jr.
|after2=Nehemiah Mead
|years=October 1748 – May 1749}}
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Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
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|years=October 1749 – May 1750}}
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Connecticut House of Representatives
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|before2=Samuel Fitch
|with=David Lambert
|after=Joseph Platt, Jr.
|after2=Samuel Fitch
|years=October 1751 – May 1752}}
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