James B. Beck
James Burnie Beck (February 13, 1822 – May 3, 1890) was a Scottish-American United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck migrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, New York.After the war, Beck was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives serving Kentucky's 7th congressional district.He was appointed to the Select Committee on Reconstruction where it was expected that as a newcomer and an immigrant he would be no obstacle to Republican intentions, but he immediately became a tenacious advocate of the rights of the defeated states.Long-time Washington journalist Benjamin Perley Poore described Beck during his time in the Senate as "a stalwart, farmer-like looking man, with that overcharged brain which made his tongue at times falter because he could not utter what his furious, fiery eloquence prompted.