Reilly was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses . He resumed the practice of law in Pottsville . He was a delegate to the 1880 Democratic National Convention . He was an unsuccessful candidate for law judge of Schuylkill County in 1881 and again in 1882 , and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress
1880 Democratic National Convention
1880 Democratic National Convention
James Bernard Reilly