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LaGrange, Georgia
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LaGrange is a city and the county seat of Troup County, Georgia, United States. The population of the city was estimated to be 30,452 in 2013 by the U. S. Census Bureau and it is the principal city of the LaGrange, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama Combined Statistical Area. It is about 60 miles southwest of Atlanta and located in the foothills of the Georgia Piedmont, LaGrange is home to LaGrange College, the oldest private college in the state. Started as an academy, it has been affiliated since the late 19th century with the Methodist Church. The citys proximity to West Point Lake, a few miles to the west, helps attract bass fishermen, the Troup County Courthouse, Annex, and Jail, built in 1939, is one of LaGranges properties that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. LaGrange is named after the estate near Paris of the wife of the Marquis de La Fayette. When La Fayette, a Revolutionary War hero, visited Georgia in 1825 on a national tour, the city was incorporated in December 1828. By 1860 Troup County had become the fourth-wealthiest county in Georgia and it was the fifth-largest slaveholding county in the state. As the county seat, LaGrange was a center of trade for this prosperous area, during the American Civil War, LaGrange was defended by a volunteer womens auxiliary group known as the Nancy Harts or Nancy Hart Rifles, named after Nancy Hart. After defeating the Confederates in nearby West Point, Georgia, Colonel Oscar La Grange led his Union troops to the county seat of LaGrange and he placed Confederate prisoners near the front of the column. The Nancy Harts negotiated a surrender with the colonel, La Grange may have been returning positive treatment which he had earlier received. He had been given medical care by Confederates and was attended by a niece of Senator Hill, La Grange was exchanged for a Confederate prisoner, and he returned to battle duty. To show their gratitude for his sparing their homes, one of the Nancy Harts hosted a dinner for Col and he paroled some local prisoners so they could attend. Many women of the town cooked all night to provide the meal, the next morning the Federal troops marched out, taking various men of the town as prisoners of war. They were soon released, when it was learned that General Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, in the late 19th century, LaGrange developed as a railroad center and as an industrial center. Textile mills were developed here and elsewhere in the upland region, initially they employed only white workers. They increased in regional, state and national economic importance into the mid-20th century, gradually in the late 20th century, much textile manufacturing moved offshore, out of the United States. The city has transitioned to an economy with some new industries
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Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
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The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is the founding college of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The college was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin, today, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences comprises 30 departments in five divisions, fine arts, social sciences, biological sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, and the humanities. From that point it was known as the Franklin College of Liberal Arts, then later as Franklin College of Arts, classes were taught first taught on what is present-day North Campus. The first permanent brick building on campus was the Franklin College, now renamed Old College, the building a Georgian brick structure built in 1806, houses the offices for the Dean of Franklin College. The building is patterned after a building at Yale University and is the oldest surviving building at the University and in Athens, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest and largest college at the University of Georgia. All six of the University of Georgias Marshall Scholarship recipients were Franklin college students, 1977–1988 William J. Payne 1992–2004 Wyatt Anderson 2004–2011 Garnett S. Stokes 2011–2012 Hugh Ruppersburg, interim 2012–present Alan T. Dorsey Reed, Thomas Walter. History of the University of Georgia, UNDERGRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES OFFERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
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University of Georgia
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Its primary location is a 762-acre campus adjacent to the college town of Athens, Georgia, approximately an hours drive from the global city of Atlanta. The university has been labeled one of the Public Ivies, a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League. The university was founded in 1785 as the United States first state-chartered university and its historic North Campus is on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district. The contiguous campus areas include rolling hills, gardens, and extensive green space including nature walks, fields, shrubbery, and large and varied arboreta. Close to the campus is the universitys 58-acre Health Sciences Campus that also has an extensive landscaped green space, more than 400 trees. The university offers over 140 degree programs in an array of disciplines. Consisting of thirteen separate libraries, the UGA Libraries rank among the nation’s largest and best research libraries containing 5.7 million volumes, the University of Georgia is one of 126 member institutions that comprise the Association of Research Libraries. The university is organized into seventeen schools and colleges, the university has three primary campuses. The largest one is the campus in Athens that has 460 buildings. The university has two campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville, Georgia. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state, the total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres. Varsity and intramural student athletics are a part of student life. UGA served as a member of the SEC in 1932. In their 121-year history, the varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the marching band of the university, plays at sports. The Senatus Academicus was composed of the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees with the Georgia Senate presiding over those two boards, the first meeting of the universitys board of trustees was held in Augusta, Georgia on February 13,1786. The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut, Baldwin was a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and one of two Georgia delegates to sign the final document. Many features on the University of Georgia campus resemble the campus of Yale, on July 2,1799, the Senatus Academicus met again in Louisville, Georgia and decided that the time was right to open the university
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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United States House of Representatives
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The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the Senate, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the House are established by Article One of the United States Constitution, since its inception in 1789, all representatives are elected popularly. The total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435, the House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the President for consideration. The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is traditionally the leader of the controlling party. He or she and other leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conferences. The House meets in the wing of the United States Capitol. Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress of the Confederation was a body in which each state was equally represented. All states except Rhode Island agreed to send delegates, the issue of how to structure Congress was one of the most divisive among the founders during the Convention. The House is referred to as the house, with the Senate being the upper house. Both houses approval is necessary for the passage of legislation, the Virginia Plan drew the support of delegates from large states such as Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, as it called for representation based on population. The smaller states, however, favored the New Jersey Plan, the Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states in 1788, but its implementation was set for March 4,1789. The House began work on April 1,1789, when it achieved a quorum for the first time, during the first half of the 19th century, the House was frequently in conflict with the Senate over regionally divisive issues, including slavery. The North was much more populous than the South, and therefore dominated the House of Representatives, However, the North held no such advantage in the Senate, where the equal representation of states prevailed. Regional conflict was most pronounced over the issue of slavery, One example of a provision repeatedly supported by the House but blocked by the Senate was the Wilmot Proviso, which sought to ban slavery in the land gained during the Mexican–American War. Conflict over slavery and other issues persisted until the Civil War, the war culminated in the Souths defeat and in the abolition of slavery. Because all southern senators except Andrew Johnson resigned their seats at the beginning of the war, the years of Reconstruction that followed witnessed large majorities for the Republican Party, which many Americans associated with the Unions victory in the Civil War and the ending of slavery. The Reconstruction period ended in about 1877, the ensuing era, the Democratic and the Republican Party held majorities in the House at various times. The late 19th and early 20th centuries also saw an increase in the power of the Speaker of the House
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John Brown Gordon
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John Brown Gordon was one of Robert E. Lees most trusted Confederate generals by the end of the American Civil War. After the war, he was an opponent of Reconstruction during the late 1860s. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U. S, senator from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1891 to 1897. He also served as the 53rd Governor of Georgia from 1886 to 1890, Gordon was descended from an ancient Scottish lineage, and was born on his father Zachariah Gordons farm in Upson County, Georgia, the fourth of twelve children. Many Gordon family members fought in the Revolutionary War and his family moved to Walker County, Georgia in the 1840s, where his father owned a plantation with 18 slaves at the time of the 1840 census. He was a student at the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Mystical 7 Society. He studied law in Atlanta and passed the bar examination, Gordon and his father, Zachariah, invested in a series of coal mines in Tennessee and Georgia. Gordon married Rebecca Fanny Haralson, daughter of Hugh Anderson Haralson, in 1854, in 1860, he owned one slave, a 14-year-old female. His father owned four slaves that same census, although lacking military education or experience, Gordon was elected captain of a company of mountaineers and quickly climbed from captain to brigadier general, to major general. Though Gordon himself often claimed he was promoted to lieutenant general, in 1864, Gordon was described by General Robert E. Lee in a letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis as being one of his best brigadiers, characterized by splendid audacity. Gordon commanded the 6th Alabama in 1862 and he was wounded in the eyes during the assault on Malvern Hill. Assigned by General Lee to hold the vital road, or Bloody Lane, during the Battle of Antietam. First, a Minié ball passed through his calf, then, a second ball hit him higher in the same leg. A third ball went through his left arm and he continued to lead his men despite the fact that the muscles and tendons in his arm were mangled and a small artery was severed. A fourth ball hit him in his shoulder, despite pleas that he go to the rear, he continued to lead his men. He was finally stopped by a ball hit him in the face, passing through his left cheek. He fell with his face in his cap and might have drowned in his own if it had not drained out through a bullet hole in the cap. A Confederate surgeon thought he would not survive but after he was returned to Virginia, after months of recuperation, in June 1863 Gordon led a brigade of Georgians in Jubal A. Earlys division during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania
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Haralson County, Georgia
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Haralson County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U. S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,780, the county was created on January 26,1856 and was named for Hugh A. Haralson, a former Georgia congressman. Haralson County is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, the county was originally governed by a sole Commissioner of Roads and Revenues. The last occupant of this office was Charles Sanders, the county is now governed by a five-member Board of Commissioners, which replaced the single-commissioner form beginning with the term starting in January 2005. The Chairman of the Board is elected county-wide, the current occupant of this office is Allen Poole, who had previously come close to winning election in the single-commissioner era. There are four other commissioners, one elected from each of four geographical districts, the current occupants of these offices are District 1s Kenneth Smith, District 2s Jamie Brown Bennett, District 3s John Dobbs and District 4s Sammy Robinson. The current sheriff of Haralson County is Eddie Mixon, judge J. Edward Eddie Hulsey, Jr. is the current probate judge. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 283 square miles. The vast majority of Haralson County is located in the Upper Tallapoosa River sub-basin of the ACT River Basin, just the very northwestern corner of the county is located in the Upper Coosa River sub-basin of the same ACT River Basin. The population density was 91 people per square mile, there were 10,719 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 92. 97% White,5. 40% Black or African American,0. 25% Native American,0. 34% Asian,0. 20% from other races,0. 56% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 23. 00% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.03. In the county, the population was out with 26. 10% under the age of 18,8. 10% from 18 to 24,29. 20% from 25 to 44,23. 60% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 95.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.20 males, the median income for a household in the county was $31,656, and the median income for a family was $38,373. Males had an income of $31,816 versus $20,821 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,823, about 11. 40% of families and 15. 50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18. 10% of those under age 18 and 16. 10% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 28,780 people,10,757 households, the population density was 102.0 inhabitants per square mile
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Haralson, Georgia
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Haralson is a town in Coweta and Meriwether counties in the U. S. state of Georgia. The population was 166 at the 2010 census and it is noted for being one of the filming locations for both The Walking Dead and Lawless. Haralson was named for Hugh A. Haralson, a former Georgia congressman, Haralson is located primarily in southeastern Coweta County at 33°13′36″N 84°34′11″W. The city limits extend south into Meriwether County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 0.81 square miles, of which 0.012 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 144 people,57 households, the population density was 203.1 people per square mile. There were 65 housing units at a density of 91.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 84. 03% White,6. 94% African American,1. 39% Asian,21. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the family size was 2.91. In the town, the population was out with 23. 6% under the age of 18,9. 0% from 18 to 24,31. 9% from 25 to 44,24. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.7 males, the median income for a household in the town was $37,500, and the median income for a family was $39,167. Males had an income of $33,750 versus $23,125 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,346, there were 9. 5% of families and 13. 8% of the population living below the poverty line, including 25. 8% of under eighteens and 33. 3% of those over 64
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Coweta County, Georgia
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Coweta County is a county located in the west central portion of the U. S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 127,317, Coweta County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. The counties boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9,1826, Coweta County was named for the Koweta Indians, who had several towns in and around the present-day county. In the city of Newnan, on April 23,1899, Hose was tortured and burned alive by a lynch mob of approximately 2,000 citizens of Coweta County. The legislative body of is the Coweta County Commission, which consists of five elected from numbered districts. The chairmanship rotates among the members, Coweta County is the only county in Georgia that operates with a rotating chairmanship. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 446 square miles. The eastern half of Coweta County, from Palmetto southwest to Newnan, the western half is in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Lake Harding sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin. The population density was 202 people per square mile, there were 33,182 housing units at an average density of 75 per square mile. 3. 14% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, of all households 17. 60% were made up of individuals and 5. 70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the family size was 3.17. In the county, the population was out with 28. 70% under the age of 18,7. 60% from 18 to 24,33. 40% from 25 to 44,21. 80% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 98.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.40 males, the median income for a household in the county was $52,706, and the median income for a family was $58,750. Males had an income of $41,369 versus $27,322 for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,949, about 6. 10% of families and 7. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9. 60% of those under age 18 and 10. 50% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 127,317 people,45,673 households, the population density was 288.8 inhabitants per square mile
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George Walker Crawford
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George Walker Crawford was a licensed attorney turned politician from Columbia County, Georgia. Crawford was appointed attorney general for the state in 1827, by Governor John Forsyth, Crawford also served five years in the General Assemblys lower house as a representative of Richmond County on a platform of states rights. George Crawford served in the U. S. House of Representatives, Crawford was elected Georgias 38th governor – serving two terms from 1843–47. He became the only Whig Party candidate in history to occupy the Governors Mansion. Crawford also served as United States Secretary of War from 1849–50, Crawfords time in President Zachary Taylors cabinet was marred by speculation regarding a probate claim he settled for George Galphins heirs. Crawford received a gratuity of substantial remuneration for his services - Crawfords political adversaries framed it as the Galphin Affair – marking the end of Crawfords political aspirations, when President Taylor unexpectedly died while in office, Crawford resigned his position as Secretary of War and entered political retirement. In 1861, however, Crawford was elected a delegate from Richmond County to the states Secession Convention which brought him out of retirement to answer the call of his constituents. By the conventions first order of business, Crawford was elected Permanent President of the Convention by which he presided over Georgias decision to secede from the Union, George Walker Crawford was born on December 22,1798, in Columbia County, Georgia. He was the son of Peter and Mary Ann Crawford. Peter Crawford acquired a tract of land that he called Belair Plantation. The homestead was situated close to his uncle, Joel Crawford, George Crawford grew up on the familys estate, heavily influenced by his father, and his cousin William as well. Georges father was an attorney and George availed himself to the well-stocked personal library of his father while homeschooling his education. Peter Crawford also entered Georgia politics himself – beginning as Columbia Countys first clerk of courts and becoming a 10-term representative in the state legislature. George Crawfords cousin, William H. Crawford, was becoming well known for his political service. George Crawford built on his homeschooling at the College of New Jerseys school of law, Crawford graduated with a bachelors degree in 1820, and subsequently completed an internship under the tutelage of Richard Henry Wilde. Crawford was licensed to practice law in 1822, and started a practice in Augusta partnering with Henry H. Cumming. He went on to obtain a degree from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. After graduating Franklin, Crawford served from 1824 to 1825, as a lieutenant in the 10th Regiment of the Georgia Militia
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Georgia's at-large congressional district
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From 1793 to 1827 and again from 1829 to 1845, Georgia elected all its Representatives in Congress from a single multi-member at-large congressional district. From 1793 to 1803 Georgia elected 2 Representatives at large, from 1803 to 1813 Georgia elected 4 Representatives at large. From 1813 to 1823 Georgia elected 6 Representatives at large, from 1823 to 1826 and again from 1829 to 1833 Georgia elected 7 Representatives at large. From 1833 to 1843 Georgia elected 9 Representatives at large, from 1843 to 1845 Georgia elected 8 Representatives at large. Briefly, from 1883 to 1885, Georgia elected one of its representatives at large, election results and OurCampaigns. com Martis, Kenneth C. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, the Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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Georgia's 4th congressional district
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Georgias 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U. S. state of Georgia. The district is represented by Democrat Hank Johnson, though the districts boundaries have been redrawn following the 2010 census. The first election using the new boundaries were the 2012 congressional elections. The newly drawn district retains its majority African American status and includes the cities of Conyers, Covington, Decatur, Lilburn, Lithonia, and portions of Atlanta. DeKalb Gwinnett Newton Rockdale As of May 2015, there are five members of the U. S. House of Representatives from Georgias 4th congressional district who are currently living at this time. Georgias congressional districts List of United States congressional districts Georgia United States House elections,2006 Martis, the Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present PDF map of Georgias 4th district at nationalatlas. gov Georgias 4th district at GovTrack. us
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William Eustis
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William Eustis was an early American physician, politician, and statesman from Massachusetts. Trained in medicine, he served as a surgeon during the American Revolutionary War. He resumed medical practice after the war, but soon entered politics, after several terms in the state legislature, Eustis won election to the United States Congress in 1800, serving as a moderate Democratic-Republican. He briefly returned to politics after losing reelection in 1804. Due in part to his inexperience at managing the army and a lack of preparedness, Madison then appointed Eustis Minister to the Netherlands, a post he held from 1814 until 1818. After another period in Congress, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1822, a popular successor to long-serving John Brooks, Eustis died in office in 1825. His Boston mansion, built in the 1750s by royal governor William Shirley, is known as the Shirley-Eustis House and is a National Historic Landmark, William Eustis was born on June 10,1753 in Cambridge, to Benjamin Eustis, a prominent Boston doctor, and Elizabeth Eustis. He was the surviving son of twelve children. He was educated at the Boston Latin School before he entered Harvard College, while at Harvard he belonged to an undergraduate militia unit called the Martimercurian Band. After graduation he studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren, a well-known Patriot political leader, when the Battles of Lexington and Concord sparked the American Revolutionary War in April 1775, Warren and Eustis both worked in the field, tending the injured revolutionaries. Warren secured for Eustis a commission as surgeon to the rebel artillery. Eustis helped care for the wounded at the June 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill and he served with the Continental Army in the New York and New Jersey campaign, refusing a lieutenant colonels commission offered by artillery chief Henry Knox. During his Continental Army service, Eustis met and established a friendship with New Jersey native Aaron Burr. In 1777 Eustis was placed in command of a hospital established at the former residence of Loyalist Beverley Robinson north of New York City. After the war Eustis returned to practice in Boston. Eustis became vice president of the Society of the Cincinnati in 1786, a post he held until 1810, Eustis was elected to the Massachusetts General Court from 1788 to 1794, which he left because he was sick of the political gamesmanship in the body. He was thereafter chosen to serve on the Governors Council for two years, in 1800 he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives. Eustis publicly denied being the author of the letters, but was silent on his role in the affair, Eustis was a moderate Democratic-Republican who did not seek the significant reforms more radical Republicans wanted
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James Hamilton Jr.
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James Hamilton Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. He represented South Carolina in the U. S. Congress, as governor, he led the state during the Nullification Crisis of 1832, at the peak of his power. He helped shape the perception of the Court proceedings and the reasons for the revolt, as well as gaining legislation in 1822 for more controls on slaves. Because of problems with crippling debt after 1839, Hamiltons reputation suffered and his parents sent him to preparatory schools in New England, he studied in Newport, Rhode Island, and Dedham, Massachusetts, before returning to Charleston. In the city he read law under prominent attorneys Daniel Huger, Hamilton passed the bar and went into practice in Draytons office, he later was in partnership with James L. Petigru. A South Carolinian who served in the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence and she brought three plantations and approximately 200 slaves to the marriage. The couple had children, ten males and one female. Hamilton entered politics in the state and he was elected in 1818 to the South Carolina state House of Representatives, serving from 1819 until early 1822. That year Hamilton was elected as Intendant, or mayor, of the city of Charleston, Hamilton quickly organized a militia to defend the city and round up and arrest slave suspects. Its forces roamed the city and its environs for weeks, with Hamiltons leadership, the City Council commissioned a Court of Magistrates and Freeholders to review the cases, hear testimony, and determine guilt and punishment. They conducted their proceedings in secret, beginning in the middle of June, suspects were arrested throughout the city. On July 1, the court published its findings related to the first 30 suspects, declaring Denmark Vesey and five slaves guilty of conspiracy. They were executed on July 2 by hanging, in total, most during the next weeks, the courts examined a total of 131 men, convicted a total of 67 men of conspiracy and hanged 35, through July 1822. A total of 31 men were transported,27 reviewed and acquitted, but, Hamilton captured the public opinion of the events, publishing a 46-page article in August, taking credit for the citys actions in preventing a huge uprising and bloodbath. He also shaped the Courts official Report of its proceedings, published in October, historian Lacy K. Robert Tinkler, biographer of Hamilton, thinks he was ruthless about pursuing suspects because he believed the plot was real. Hamilton built his career on these events. In the fall, he lobbied the legislature to gain his agenda of increasing controls on slaves and he opposed the increasing paternalism in slave treatment which was based on Christian teachings. As this violated international treaties, the law caused conflict with the federal government, Hamilton upheld the states right to make such a law, but it was declared unconstitutional
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Joseph Vance
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Joseph Vance was a Whig politician from Ohio. He was the 13th Governor of Ohio and the first Whig to hold the position, Vance was born in Catfish, Pennsylvania. He moved with his father, Joseph C, Vance, a Revolutionary War veteran, to Vanceburg, Kentucky, in 1788, and then to Urbana, Ohio, in 1805. Vance married Mary Lemon in 1807, a salt farmer, Vance gained a commission during the War of 1812 and rose quickly from Major to Major General. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1812–1813, 1815–1816, elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1820, Vance served seven terms before losing a bid for an eighth term in 1834. Vance ran for governor in 1836 and served a single two-year term and he intended to retire but was elected to the Ohio State Senate, and served in the Senate from 1840 to 1841. Vance ran again for the House of Representatives in 1842 and served two terms in the House. He did not run for re-election in 1846, Vance was a delegate to the 1848 Whig National Convention and was a member of the Ohio State Constitutional Convention in 1851. Vance died in Urbana, Ohio and was buried at Oak Dale Cemetery in Urbana, Vance was instrumental in laying out the town of Findlay, Ohio. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Joseph Vance at Find a Grave Vance, Joseph
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William Drayton
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For other men with the same name, see, William Drayton. William Drayton was an American politician, banker, and writer who grew up in Charleston and he was the son of William Drayton, Sr. who served as justice of the Province of East Florida. Drayton served as a United States Representative to Congress, following the Nullification Crisis, as a unionist Drayton decided to move his family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1833. He lived there the rest of his life and he was appointed as president of the Second Bank of the United States. The son of William Drayton, Sr. and his wife, William was born in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1780 the judge lost his position due to accusations of sympathy with rebels in the American Revolutionary War, he returned with his family to Charleston. He had bought property and plantations in Florida, including what became called Drayton Island, the Drayton sons were sent to England to complete their educations. Afterward, with his older brother Jacob, William studied law in Charleston, about 1804 William Drayton married Anna Gadsden, a cousin once removed. Two of their five children survived to adulthood, maria Heyward Drayton was also close to her young stepchildren. William Heyward, became a lawyer in Philadelphia, henry Edward, became a doctor in Philadelphia. The two younger Drayton brothers married the sisters Harriet and Sarah Coleman, respectively, thomas Drayton, a West Point graduate, stayed in South Carolina when the family moved north and bought a plantation at Hilton Head. He resigned from the US Army to join Confederate forces after secession and he and his brother Percival commanded opposing forces in the battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, when Union forces captured the forts. William Drayton served in the War of 1812, where he was commissioned as a colonel, colonel Drayton was elected in 1824 to represent South Carolinas first district in the U. S. Congress, and served from 1825 to 1833 with repeated re-election. A unionist during the controversy, in 1833 he moved his family to Philadelphia. While a unionist, Drayton continued to support slavery, in Philadelphia he wrote and published The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Abolitionists, a pro-slavery tract. Drayton was appointed as president of the Second Bank of the United States and his papers are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The author Edgar Allan Poe dedicated his collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque to him, biographic sketch at U. S. Congress website Drayton Family Papers, including correspondence from 1783–1896, Historical Society of Pennsylvania William Drayton at Find a Grave
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Richard Mentor Johnson
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Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren. He is the vice president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U. S. House of Representatives and Senate, he began, Johnson was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1806. He became allied with fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay as a member of the War Hawks faction that favored war with Britain in 1812. At the outset of the War of 1812, Johnson was commissioned a colonel in the Kentucky Militia and he and his brother James served under William Henry Harrison in Upper Canada. Johnson participated in the Battle of the Thames, some reported that he personally killed the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, which he later used to his political advantage. After the war, Johnson returned to the House of Representatives, the legislature appointed him to the Senate in 1819 to fill the seat vacated by John J. Crittenden. As his prominence grew, his relationship with Julia Chinn. It worked against his political ambitions, unlike other upper class leaders who had African American mistresses but never mentioned them, Johnson openly treated Chinn as his common law wife. He acknowledged their two daughters as his children, giving them his surname, much to the consternation of some of his constituents. The relationship is believed to have led to the loss of his Senate seat in 1829, in 1836, Johnson was the Democratic nominee for vice-president on a ticket with Martin Van Buren. Campaigning with the slogan Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh, virginias delegation to the Electoral College went against the states popular vote and refused to endorse Johnson, abstaining instead. However, he was elected to the office by the Senate, Johnson proved such a liability for the Democrats in the 1836 election that they refused to renominate him for vice-president in 1840. President Van Buren campaigned for re-election without a running mate and he lost to William Henry Harrison, a Whig. Johnson tried to return to office but was defeated. He finally was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1850, Richard Mentor Johnson was born on October 17,1780, the fifth of Robert and Jemima Johnsons eleven children. At the time, the family was living in the newly founded settlement of Beargrass, near present-day Louisville, by 1782, the Johnsons had moved to Bryans Station in Fayette County. Johnsons mother was considered among the women of the community because of her actions during Simon Girtys raid on Bryans Station in August 1782
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Cave Johnson
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Cave Johnson was for fourteen years a Democratic U. S. Johnson was born on January 11,1793 and he acted as one of the campaign managers for presidential candidate James K. Polk at both the Democratic party convention and for the general election. After his victory Polk appointed him United States Postmaster General, a post in which he served from 1845–1849 and he was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, and died in Clarksville, Tennessee. He is also credited with introducing street corner mail boxes in urban areas and he later served as president of the Bank of Tennessee from 1854 to 1860. Johnson died on November 23,1866, biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Cave Johnson at Find a Grave
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Waddy Thompson Jr.
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Waddy Thompson, Jr. was a U. S. Representative from South Carolina and U. S, born in Pickensville, Ninety-Six District, South Carolina—near Easley in present Pickens County—Thompson was reared in Greenville. About 1824 the couple moved to Greenville, where Thompson became politically active and he served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1826 to 1829. Thompson was elected solicitor of the circuit in 1830. The nullification crisis dissipated the following year, but in the meantime Thompson was appointed general of South Carolina militia. In 1835, Thompson was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 24th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Warren R. Davis. He was reelected as a Whig to the 25th and 26th Congresses serving from September 10,1835, Thompson served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the 26th Congress. In 1842 President John Tyler appointed Thompson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, Thompson quickly learned enough Spanish to make his first speech to Mexican cabinet members in that language. He became friendly with Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna, two years after his return to the United States, Thompson published Recollections of Mexico, and he opposed the Mexican War. Thompson returned to Greenville and managed plantations in Edgefield and Madison, Florida—the latter of which was 1,300 acres, Thompson filled his house with Mexican memorabilia and employed a full-time gardener to care for exotic plants and shrubs he had collected. By the time of the Civil War, Thompson had become a Unionist, in 1866 he sold his Paris Mountain property and moved to his Florida plantation. The Florida legislature appointed him general of a circuit in 1868, but in 1868 he died while in Tallahassee. Waddy Thompson, Jr. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, texas State Historical Association - Waddy Thompson Southern Historical Collection at UNC-CH holds his papers as envoy to Mexico Waddy Thompson, Jr. at Find a Grave
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William Crosby Dawson
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William Crosby Dawson was a lawyer, judge, politician, and soldier from Georgia. Dawson was born in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, January 4,1798 and his parents were George Dawson, Sr. and Katie Ruth Marston Skidmore. In 1818, he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Greensboro where he was a jury lawyer. He was known for his ability to settle out of court. In 1819 he married Henrietta M. Wingfield and he became a widower in 1850 and in 1854 married Eliza M. Williams of Memphis, Tennessee. Dawson was elected as one of the presidents of the Alumni Society of the University of Georgia at its first meeting. He was elected Clerk of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1821, from 1828, he compiled Dawsons Digest of Laws of Georgia, published in 1831. From 1834 to 1835 he served as a state Senator, in 1836 he was Captain of Volunteers under General Winfield Scott in the Creek and Seminole Indian War in Florida. He served from November 7,1836, to November 13,1841 and he was the Whig candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1841 but was defeated by Charles James McDonald. He saw his defeat as gubernatorial candidate as disapproval of his service, particularly his vote earlier in the year to tax coffee and tea. During his service in the United States House, he chaired the Committee on Mileage, the Committee on Claims, and the Committee on Military Affairs. He was appointed by Governor George W. Crawford to fill a vacancy as Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit Court in 1845 but declined being a candidate for the bench at the completion of his term. Dawson was elected in November,1847 as the Whig candidate for Georgias Class 3 seat in the United States Senate for the 31st, 32nd, Dawson supported the compromises that preserved the union in 1850. He chaired the Committee on Private Land Claims and presided over the Southern convention at Memphis in 1853 and he was twice a delegate to the convention to amend the U. S. Constitution. He was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Georgia on November 8,1843, while in Congress, he was active in local Freemasonry. The Dawson Lodge in Washington, D. C. and the Dawson Lodge in Social Circle, Dawson died in Greensboro on May 5,1856, and was buried in Greensboro Cemetery with Masonic rites following a service in the Presbyterian church. A historical sign was placed in his honor in Greensboro, because of his elegant manners, he was called the first gentleman of Georgia by Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Dawson County, Georgia, and the county seat, Dawsonville, were named for William Crosby Dawson, the county was created by a legislative act on December 3,1857, primarily out of Lumpkin County and small parts of Gilmer, Pickens and Forsyth counties
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Edward Stanly
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Edward W. Stanly was a North Carolina politician and orator who represented the southeastern portion of the State in the U. S. House for five terms. In 1857, Stanly ran for Governor of California, but lost to John B, politicians of the mid-nineteenth century remarked that Stanly bore a strong physical resemblance to William H. Seward, though this resemblance lessened over time. Stanly was born in New Bern, North Carolina, on January 10,1810 and he was a son of U. S. Rep. John Stanly of New Bern and a cousin of U. S. Stanly attended New Bern Academy and graduated from the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy and he then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1832. He settled in Beaufort County and began to practice law, four years later, he successfully ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives on the Whig ticket. He served in the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh congresses from March 4,1837 to March 3,1843, Stanly earned his reputation as North Carolinas greatest orator of his generation during his first term in Congress. Throughout his service in Congress, Stanly was a leader of the Southerners who emphasized the Union over states rights and he won the nickname the Conqueror during his re-election campaign of 1839. Stanly served briefly as attorney general of North Carolina in 1847-1848, in 1849, Stanly was again elected to the U. S. House, serving two terms from March 4,1849 to March 3,1853. He declined to run for a term in the elections of 1853 and instead moved to California. He was the Republican Party’s unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1857, abraham Lincoln appointed Stanly military governor of eastern North Carolina with the rank of brigadier general on May 26,1862. Stanly resigned this office less than a year later on March 2,1863 and he returned to California and resumed his law practice. He died in San Francisco on July 12,1872 and he is buried in the Stanly family plot at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. Stanly had a very colorful nephew who fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, Armistead led the Boys in Grey at Pickett’s Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. Stanly and Armistead were born in the house in New Bern. The home stands today, a stop for both the Blue and the Grey. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, nCpedia Norman D. Brown, Edward Stanly, First Republican Candidate for Governor of California, California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. In JSTOR Norman D. Brown, Edward Stanly, Whiggerys Tarheel Conqueror, tuscaloosa, AL, University of Alabama Press,1974. Works by or about Edward Stanly at Internet Archive
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John Botts
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John Minor Botts was a nineteenth-century politician, planter and lawyer from Virginia. He was a prominent Unionist in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War, Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts and his wife Jane Tyler Botts. Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so John, Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, then studied law. He married Mary Whiting Blair, and they had several children. Two sons died in young, their firstborn son, Archibald Blair Botts, joined the U. S. Army and died in Mexico in 1847. Thus, only Beverly Blair Botts, Rosalie S. Botts Lewis, after admission to the Virginia bar in 1830. Botts moved to Henrico County, Virginia outside Richmond and he operated a plantation called Half Sink on the Chickahominy River in Varina Farms area about nine miles east of downtown Richmond. He used the progressive agricultural methods advocated by his brother Charles Taylor Botts in the Southern Planter, Botts also raised racehorses and practiced law, and gained the nickname Bison. Botts lost his first run for office in 1831, but won the following year. In 1835, he seemed to lose to William B, randolph, but successfully challenged the results in court. In 1836, he appeared to lose, to William N. Whiting. In 1838, voters elected Botts as a Whig to the United States House of Representatives and he gained a reputations for independent spirit as well as partisanship. For example, Botts repeatedly blamed the financial hardship caused by the Panic of 1837 on Democrats, Botts served in Congress from 1839 to 1843. He was defeated for reelection in 1842, although a slaveholder, Botts vehemently opposed extension of slavery into territories, and blamed Democrat John C. Calhoun for increasing sectional animosities by trying to annex Texas. This position was the opposite of fellow position and President John Tyler, the Botts bill, however, was tabled until the following January, when it was rejected after Botts defeat for re-election, 127−83. After this defeat, Botts continued to publish letters and articles opposing Texas annexation, Botts won election to Congress again in 1846, serving from 1847 to 1849. He was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs from 1847 to 1849, voters once again failed to reelect Botts in 1848, but he won again in 1850. Botts also served as one of six delegates represented the city of Richmond and the counties of Charles City, Henrico, and New Kent in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851
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Armistead Burt
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Born at Clouds Creek, near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina, Burt moved with his parents to Pendleton, South Carolina. One of his brothers was future Civil War officer Erasmus Burt and he was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Pendleton. He moved to Abbeville, South Carolina, in 1828 and continued the practice of law and he also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1834 to 1835, Burt was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs and he served as Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives during the absence of Speaker Winthrop in 1848. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852 and he resumed the practice of law in Abbeville. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868 and he was interred in Episcopal Cemetery. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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William Henry Bissell
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William Henry Bissell was the 11th Governor of the U. S. state of Illinois from 1857 until his death. He was one of the first successful Republican Party candidates, winning the election of 1856 just two years after the founding of his party, Bissell was born in Hartwick, Otsego County, New York, son of Luther Bissell and Hannah Shepard. He attended the schools and was graduated from the Philadelphia Medical College in 1835. He moved to Monroe County, Illinois in 1837 where he taught school, from 1840 to 1842, Bissell was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Belleville, St. Clair County and he was prosecuting attorney of St. Clair County in 1844. He served in the Mexican War as colonel of the Second Regiment, Bissell was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses and as an Independent Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1854, Bissell, true to his anti-slavery convictions, held a very definite dislike for his Southern colleagues, whom he described collectively as insolent, overbearing and bullying beyond all belief. Davis challenged Bissell to a duel, which Northern Congressmen were known to refuse, Bissell not only accepted the challenge, but in his rights as the party challenged, specified army muskets, loaded with ball and buckshot, at close range. Davis then cleverly accepted further explanation for the offensive comments in Bissells speech. All state officials, as a part of their oath, had to swear as to never having participated in a duel, either by fighting in one. Once back in Illinois, Bissell, who had ties with Stephen A. Douglas over the slavery extension issue, came under the wing of Lincoln. Bissell, by the mid-1850s, was paralyzed, able to walk only with use of a cane. He was nominated unopposed, on May 29,1856, at Bloomington, the Democrats made good work of the duel issue throughout the campaign and even after the election, which Bissell carried by 4787 votes in a three-candidate field. The facts were plain, If Bissell took the anti-duelling oath, Bissell slipped the bonds of the charge by pointing out that the duel acceptance occurred in the District of Columbia, and was therefore not subject to the Illinois Constitution. The actual offense, of course, was the perjury itself, perpetrated when Bissell, with embarrassed but tacit approval from the Republicans, all official business, was transacted from the second floor of the Executive Mansion. Bissell served as Governor of Illinois from January 12,1857 until his death and he died at the Illinois Executive Mansion in Springfield and was interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. He was the first Illinois Governor to die in office, Bissell was married to Elizabeth Kane, daughter of former Illinois Governor and United States Senator Elias Kane. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and this article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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Thomas Hart Benton (politician)
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Thomas Hart Benton, nicknamed Old Bullion, was a U. S. Senator from Missouri and an advocate of westward expansion of the United States. He served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, becoming the first member of that body to serve five terms, Benton was a strong supporter of the Democratic Party, and of President Andrew Jackson, whose ideas provided the basis for the partys founding. Benton was an architect and champion of expansion by the United States. Thomas Hart Benton was born in Harts Mill, North Carolina and his father Jesse Benton, a wealthy lawyer and landowner, died in 1790. His grandfather Samuel Benton was born in Worcester, England and settled in the Province of North Carolina. As Benton was leaving campus on the day he was expelled, he turned to the students who were jeering him and said, I am leaving here now but damn you, you will hear from me again. He then left school to manage the Benton family estate, attracted by the opportunities in the West, the young Benton moved the family to a 40,000 acre holding near Nashville, Tennessee. Here he established a plantation with accompanying schools, churches, and his experience as a pioneer instilled a devotion to Jeffersonian democracy which continued through his political career. He continued his education and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1805. He attracted the attention of Tennessees first citizen Andrew Jackson, under whose tutelage he remained during the Tennessee years, at the outbreak of the War of 1812, Jackson made Benton his aide-de-camp, with a commission as a lieutenant colonel. Benton was assigned to represent Jacksons interests to military officials in Washington D. C. he chafed under the position, in 1813 Benton engaged in a frontier brawl with Jackson in which Jackson was wounded. After the war, in 1815, Benton moved his estate to the newly opened Missouri Territory, as a Tennessean, he was under Jacksons shadow, in Missouri, he could be a big fish in the as yet small pond. He settled in St. Louis, where he practiced law and edited the Missouri Enquirer, in 1817 during a court case he and opposing attorney Charles Lucas accused each other of lying. When Lucas ran into him at the polls he accused Benton of being delinquent in paying his taxes. Benton accused Lucas of being a puppy and Lucas challenged Benton to a duel and they had a duel on Bloody Island with Lucas being shot through the throat and Benton grazed in the knee. Upon bleeding profusely, Lucas said he was satisfied and Benton released him from completing the duel, however rumors circulated that Benton, a better shot, had made the rules of 30 feet apart to favor him. Benton challenged Lucas to a rematch on Bloody Island with shots fired from nine feet, Lucas was shot close to the heart and before dying initially told Benton, I do not or cannot forgive you
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John A. Quitman
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John Anthony Quitman was an American politician and soldier. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 as a Whig and again from 1850 to 1851 as a Democrat, born at Rhinebeck, New York, in 1798, Quitman studied Classics at Hartwick Seminary, graduating in 1816. He was an instructor at Mount Airy College, Pennsylvania, and he was admitted to the bar in 1820, and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio. The following year, he moved south to Natchez, Mississippi and he purchased Monmouth in 1826, and it would remain in his family for the next 100 years. It was a dig site investigated by Dr. Montroville Dickeson during his 10-year study of the Natchez Indians of the Mississippi River Valley. Quitman practiced law in Natchez until 1826, when he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives and he became Chancellor of the state in 1828, and served on the states Constitutional Convention in 1832. In 1835, he was elected to the State Senate, becoming President of the Senate the following year and he also served as Acting Governor of Mississippi during that time. In 1838, he became a judge on the High Court of Errors, Quitman was grand master of the Mississippi Masons from 1826 to 1838 and again from 1840 to 1845. On July 1,1846, during the Mexican-American War, Quitman was made a Brigadier General of Volunteers and he commanded a brigade under Zachary Taylor in northern Mexico. After the Battle of Monterrey, he was sent to join Winfield Scotts expedition and he led the 2nd Brigade in the Volunteer Division during the Siege of Veracruz and on April 14,1847 he was promoted to Major General in the Regular Army. During the battle of Cerro Gordo, General Robert Patterson, the commander, was wounded. Reinforcements from Veracruz, including about 300 U. S. Marines, were organized into a new brigade under Colonel Watson, the Volunteer Division was divided into two new divisions. Shields and Watsons brigade designated the 4th Division, with Quitman in overall command, Quitman led his division at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He commanded the assault during the battle of Chapultepec and received the surrender of the citadel in Mexico City. After the fall of Mexico City, General Scott named Quitman as the Military Governor of Mexico City for the remainder of the occupation and he was the only American to rule from within the National Palace. Quitman was a member of the Aztec Club of 1847. He was discharged on July 20,1848, and served as Governor of Mississippi in 1850 and 1851 and it was in his capacity as governor that Quitman was approached by the Venezuelan filibuster Narciso López to lead his expedition of 1850 to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. He turned down the offer because of his desire to serve out his term as governor, the charges were dropped after three hung juries allowed him to avoid conviction
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Charles J. Faulkner
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Charles James Faulkner was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He was the father of Charles James Faulkner, Faulkner was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia. Faulkner graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. in 1822, Faulkner was the father of a son of the same name, Charles James Faulkner As an adult, Faulkner practiced law in Berkeley County. He was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates 1832-33, soon after Faulkner was appointed a commissioner to report on the boundary between Virginia and Maryland. Later in his career, Faulkner was elected to the Virginia State Senate in 1841, in 1848 he introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates a law after which the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was modeled. In 1850, Faulkner was elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and he was one of four delegates elected from the northern Valley delegate district made up of his home district of Berkeley County as well as Jefferson and Clarke Counties. Representative from 1851 to 1858 Entering Congress as a Whig, the next Congress Faulkner was elected as a Democrat, Faulkner was elected a Whig and Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1850, serving from 1851 to 1859. There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs from 1857 to 1859 and he was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston. Faulkner was released in December after negotiating his own exchange for Alfred Ely, during the American Civil War, Faulkner enlisted in the Confederate Army and was assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson. Faulkner engaged in railroad enterprises after the war and was a member of the West Virginia Constitutional Convention again in 1872 and he was elected back to the House of Representatives as a Democrat from West Virginia in 1874, serving again from 1875 to 1877. Afterward, he resumed practicing law until his death, Charles J. Faulkner died at the family estate called Boydville near Martinsburg, West Virginia on November 1,1884. Faulkner was interred in the cemetery on the estate. List of American Civil War generals Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,1774 - Present, the Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, retrieved on 2008-02-13 Charles J. Faulkner. This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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Benjamin Stanton
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Benjamin Stanton was an American politician who served as sixth Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1862 to 1864. The son of Elias & Martha Stanton, he was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Stanton pursued academic studies, Stanton studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1834, and began practicing law in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Stanton served as a member of the Ohio Senate from 1841 to 1843, Stanton was elected as a U. S. He served as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, from 1851 to 1853, from 1855 to 1861, he served as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses. Stanton served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, Stanton served as lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1862, during the American Civil War. After the battle of Shiloh, in April 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, Stanton visited the Union Army and he opined that Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin M. Prentiss, both appointed from Illinois, should be court-martialed and shot. General William Tecumseh Sherman, appointed from Ohio, published a sharp rebuttal and this led to Stantons criticizing Sherman as well. Stanton moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1865, and he moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1867 and continued the practice of law. Stanton died in Wheeling on June 2,1872, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Benjamin Stanton at Find a Grave This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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Francis Preston Blair Jr.
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Francis Preston Blair Jr. was an American jurist, politician and soldier. Blair was instrumental in appointing Nathaniel Lyon as the new commander of the Western Department of the U. S. Army. He assisted Lyon in securing help of the St. Louis Home Guard in moving over 20,000 rifles, Missouri secessionists considered this event as breaking of informal truce established in the state. This set the scene for the Camp Jackson Affair and continuing guerrilla activity by outraged pro-slavery elements, in 1868, he was Horatio Seymours vice-presidential candidate, but his dramatic speeches about the dangers of black emancipation were believed by some to have cost the Democrats the election. He suffered a stroke in 1872, but continued to be active in state politics till his death. Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky and he was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. After his admission to the Kentucky bar in Lexington, he went on to practice in St. Louis in 1842 with his brother, in 1842-1845. In fall 1845, Blair traveled to the West for buffalo hunt and stayed for a winter in eastern Colorado with his cousin George Bent in Bent’s Fort, being more interested in politics than law, Blair came back to St. Louis in the summer of 1847. A personal and political friend of Thomas Hart Benton, he known for his views opposing slavery. Blair served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1852 to 1856 and he was an outspoken Free-Soiler and was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1856. On January 14,1858, he delivered a speech describing slavery as a national problem and proposing to solve it by gradual emancipation and settling freed slaves in South. A year later, he gained prominence with his speech in Boston. Blair was defeated in 1858, but won the election in 1860 to the 37th Congress. The election results were contested by his opponents, Blair was seated in Congress on June 8,1860 and he was subsequently elected in 1862 to the 38th Congress, but had to relinquish his seat on June 10,1864, after Samuel Knox successfully contested his election. In Congress, he served as chairman of the important Military Affairs Committee, the Blairs were unwavering supporters of Abraham Lincoln during his rise to the presidency and years in office, and in return enjoyed his political patronage. In December 1863, Lincoln said that, The Blairs have to a degree the spirit of clan. Their family is a close corporation, Frank is their hope and pride
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James Buffington (Fall River, Massachusetts)
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James Buffington was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Fall River on March 16,1817 and he attended the common schools, and Friends College in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied medicine but never practiced, then engaged in mercantile pursuits and he was a member of the Fall River Board of Selectmen from 1851 to 1854, and served as the first Mayor of Fall River under the new city government from 1854 to 1855. He was elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress, Buffington was chairman of the Committee on Accounts, and the Committee on Military Affairs. Buffington was mustered into the service April 24,1861, and he was not a candidate for renomination to Congress in 1862. He was an agent of the United States Treasury and was an internal revenue collector for the district of Massachusetts 1867-1869. Buffington was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,1869, until his death in Fall River on March 7,1875 and his interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River. List of mayors of Fall River, Massachusetts United States Congress, biographical Directory of the United States Congress. James Buffington at Find a Grave
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Robert C. Schenck
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Robert Cumming Schenck was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and American diplomatic representative to Brazil and the United Kingdom. He was at battles of Bull Run and took part in Jacksons Valley Campaign of 1862, and the Battle of Cross Keys. His eldest brother, James Findlay Schenck, was an admiral in the United States Navy. Schenck was born in Franklin, Ohio to William Cortenus Schenck, William Schenck was descended from a prominent Dutch family and was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey. William Schenck was a speculator and an important early settler of Ohio who had also been in the War of 1812 and, like his son. He died when Robert was only twelve and the boy was put under the guardianship of General James Findlay and he began to study law under Thomas Corwin and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He moved to Dayton, Ohio and there rose to a position in his profession. He was in partnership with Joseph Halsey Crane in the firm of Crane, on August 21,1834, Schenck was married to Miss Renelsche W. Smith at Nissequogue, Long Island, New York. Six children were born to the union, all girls, three of them died in infancy. His wife died of tuberculosis in 1849 in Dayton, Ohio and his first foray into political life came in 1838 when he ran unsuccessfully for the State Legislature, he gained a term in 1841. In the Presidential campaign of 1840, he acquired the reputation of being one of the ablest speakers on the Whig side and he was elected to the United States Congress from his district in 1843, and re-elected in 1845,1847 and 1849. His first conspicuous work was to repeal the gag rule that had long been used to prevent antislavery petitions being read on the floor of the house. He opposed the Mexican-American War as a war of aggression to further slavery and he declined re-election in 1851, and, in March 1851, was appointed by President Millard Fillmore, Minister to Brazil and also accredited to Uruguay, Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay. He was directed by the Government to visit Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Asunción, several treaties were concluded with these governments by which the United States gained advantages never accorded to any European nation. The Democratic victory in 1852 caused the treaty of commerce with Uruguay to fail to be ratified by the United States Senate, in 1854, Schenck returned to Ohio, and though sympathizing generally in the views of the Republican party, his personal antipathy to John C. Fremont was so strong, that he took no part in the election and he was building up a lucrative law practice, and was also President of the Fort Wayne Western Railroad Company. He became more in sympathy with the Republican party, and, in September 1859, in this speech, Schenck recommended that the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. This was, perhaps, the first public endorsement of Lincoln for the presidency and he supported Lincoln with great ardor at the Chicago Convention in 1860 and in the campaign that followed
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James A. Garfield
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James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4,1881, until his assassination later that year. He is the only sitting House member to be elected president, Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother. He worked at various jobs, including on a canal boat, beginning at age 17, he attended several Ohio schools, then studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1856. A year later, Garfield entered politics as a Republican and he married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and served as a member of the Ohio State Senate. Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh. He was first elected to Congress in 1862 to represent Ohios 19th District, throughout Garfields extended congressional service after the Civil War, he firmly supported the gold standard and gained a reputation as a skilled orator. Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, but later favored an approach for civil rights enforcement for freedmen. At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Senator-elect Garfield attended as campaign manager for Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and gave the presidential nomination speech for him. When neither Sherman nor his rivals – Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine – could get votes to secure the nomination. In the 1880 presidential election, Garfield conducted a front porch campaign. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judiciary appointments, including a U. S. Supreme Court justice, Garfield advocated agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African Americans. He also proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, Presidents due to the short length of his presidency. James Garfield was born the youngest of five children on November 19,1831, in a log cabin in Orange Township, now Moreland Hills, Orange Township was located in the Western Reserve, and like many who settled there, Garfields ancestors were from New England. James father Abram had been born in Worcester, New York and he instead wed her sister Eliza, who had been born in New Hampshire. James was named for a brother, dead in infancy. In early 1833, Abram and Eliza Garfield joined the Church of Christ, Abram Garfield died later that year, his son was raised in poverty in a household led by the strong-willed Eliza. James was her child, and the two remained close for the rest of her life. Eliza Garfield remarried in 1842, but soon left her husband, Warren Belden
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John A. Logan
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John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War and he served the state of Illinois as a State Senator, a Congressman, and a U. S. Senator and was a candidate for Vice President of the United States with James G. Blaine in the election of 1884. As the 3rd Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and his likeness appears on a statue at the center of Logan Circle, Washington, D. C. He is also honored with a statue in Grant Park in Chicago, Logan is one of only three people mentioned by name in the Illinois state song. Upon his death, he lay in state in the United States Capitol rotunda. He is the father of U. S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient John Alexander Logan, Jr. John A. Logan was born near what is now Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois. He studied with his father, who was a physician, and with a private tutor and he enlisted in the 1st Illinois Infantry for the Mexican-American War, and received a commission as a second lieutenant and assignment as the regimental quartermaster. After the war Logan studied law in the office of an uncle, graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville in 1851, in 1858 and 1860, he was elected as a Democrat to the U. S. House of Representatives. In 1853, John A. Logan helped pass a law to prohibit all African Americans, including freedmen, from settling in the state. Soon after the victory at Donelson, he resigned his seat on April 2,1862 and was promoted to general in the volunteers. Major John Hotaling served as his chief of staff, to confuse matters, the 32nd Illinois was commanded at Shiloh by a different Colonel John Logan. During the Siege of Corinth, John A. Logan commanded first a brigade, in the spring of 1863, he was promoted to major general to rank from November 29,1862. In Grants Vicksburg Campaign, Logan commanded the 3rd Division of James B, mcPhersons XVII Corps, which was the first to enter the city of Vicksburg in July 1863 after its capture. Logan then served as the military governor. In November 1863 he succeeded William Tecumseh Sherman in command of the XV Corps, mcPherson during the day, he assumed command of the Army of the Tennessee. He was relieved a short time afterward by Oliver O. Howard and he returned to Illinois for the 1864 elections but rejoined the army afterward and commanded his XV corps in Shermans Carolinas Campaign. In December 1864, Grant became impatient with George H. Thomass unwillingness to attack immediately at Nashville, Logan was stopped in Louisville when news came that Thomas had completely smashed John Bell Hoods Confederate army in the Battle of Nashville
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John Coburn (politician)
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John Coburn was a United States Representative from Indiana and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Coburn was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1825 and attended the schools there. Later, he attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, graduating in 1846, as a student, he founded the Wabash College chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the first Greek letter fraternity on the campus and in continuous existence to today. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1849, Coburn was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1850. He served as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1859 to 1861 and he became colonel of the 33rd Indiana Infantry on September 16,1861. He was captured in Kentucky and spent time in Libby Prison before being exchanged, later, Coburn and Colonel Benjamin Harrison fought side by side in several battles while under General William Tecumseh Shermans command. During that time, Coburn and his troops were the first into Atlanta, there is a large marker in downtown Atlanta where the citys mayor surrendered the city to Coburn. He was mustered out on September 20,1864, in the omnibus promotions following the Civil War, he was brevetted as Brigadier General of Volunteers dating from March 13,1865. Coburn and his father were instrumental in saving the Indiana Historical Society, Coburn also gave one of the dedication speeches for the Indianapolis Soldiers and Sailors Monument. He promoted the building of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphanage in Knightstown, Indiana and his later years were spent living in the Bates-Hendricks House at 1526 S. New Jersey Street in Indianapolis with his wife Caroline Coburn until his death in 1908, Coburn was appointed as the first secretary of the Territory of Montana in March 1865 but resigned at once. He was elected judge of the judicial circuit of Indiana in October 1865. Later, he was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth, while in Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures, and as a member of Committee on Military Affairs. He was a candidate for reelection in 1874 to the 44th Congress. After leaving Congress, he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana on February 19,1884 and he returned to Indianapolis, and resumed the practice of law. He died in Indianapolis on January 28,1908, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, list of American Civil War generals Atlanta in the American Civil War United States Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, an address delivered by General John Coburn, on Memorial Day, May 30,1905. Indianapolis, Jacobs Stationery and Printing Company,1905, life and services of John B
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Henry B. Banning
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Henry Blackstone Banning was a lawyer and three-term U. S. Representative from Ohio, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon, with the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in April 1861 in the Union Army as a private. He was commissioned as a captain in Company B of the 4th Ohio Infantry and he served as colonel of the 87th Ohio Infantry, June 10-September 20,1862. Banning was honorably mustered out October 4,1862 and he reenlisted and was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 125th Ohio Infantry on January 1,1863. He transferred to the 121st Ohio Infantry on April 5,1863 and he resigned from the army on January 21,1865, to return home to Ohio. Banning served as member of the State House of Representatives in 1866 and 1867 and he moved to Cincinnati, in 1869 and resumed the practice of law. He was elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third Congress and as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress and Forty-fifth Congress and he served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses. He was a candidate for renomination in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress. He then returned to his practice in Cincinnati. Henry Banning died in Cincinnati on December 10,1881 and he was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery. He is buried not far from his brother-in-law, fellow former Civil War general Byron Kirby, camp 207, Ohio Sons of Union Veterans, was founded in 1903 and named in General Bannings honor and memory. It is still active in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Banning was inducted to the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame in November 2004 by Ohio Governor Bob Taft. The Hall of Fame recognizes Buckeyes who continue to contribute to their community, state, in 1868 he married Ida Kirby of Cincinnati, and had four children. List of American Civil War generals List of Ohios American Civil War generals Ohio in the American Civil War United States Congress, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-12 Eicher, John H. and David J. Eicher, the Biographical record of Knox County, Ohio, to which is added an elaborate compendium of National Biography. Ohio in the War Her Statesmen Generals and Soldiers, camp Banning SUV This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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William A. J. Sparks
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William Andrew Jackson Sparks was a U. S. Born near New Albany, Indiana, Sparks moved with his parents to Illinois in 1836 and he taught school for a time. He then graduated from McKendree College in 1850 and he was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Carlyle, Illinois. United States land receiver for the Edwardsville land office 1853-1856 and he served as member of the State house of representatives in 1856 and 1857. He served in the State senate in 1863 and 1864 and he served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868. Sparks was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior, Committee on Military Affairs. He did not seek renomination in 1882 and he resumed the practice of law. He was appointed by President Cleveland as Commissioner of the United States General Land Office and served from March 26,1885 and he resumed the practice of law at Carlyle and Springfield, Illinois. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, May 7,1904 and he was interred in St. Marys Catholic Cemetery, Carlyle, Illinois. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, william A. J. Sparks at Find a Grave This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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Thomas J. Henderson (politician)
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Thomas Jefferson Henderson was a U. S. Representative from Illinois and a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Henderson moved with his parents to Illinois at the age of eleven. He served as clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Stark County, Illinois from 1847 to 1849. and he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Toulon, Illinois. Henderson served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1855 and 1856 and he entered the Union Army in 1862 as colonel of the 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and fought in the Siege of Knoxville and Atlanta Campaign being wounded at the Battle of Resaca. He commanded the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps and he was brevetted brigadier general in January 1865 and led his brigade at the Battle of Wilmington. With the wars end, Henderson resumed the practice of law and moved to Princeton, Illinois and he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Illinois in 1871. Henderson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and he served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. He also served as chairman of the Republican conference in the House and he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1894. He was appointed to the board of managers for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1896 and he was appointed civilian member on the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications in 1900 and served until his death in Washington, D. C. on February 6,1911. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery in Princeton, Illinois, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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William Rosecrans
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William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U. S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War and he was the victor at prominent Western Theater battles, but his military career was effectively ended following his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. Rosecrans graduated in 1842 from the West Point Military Academy where he served in engineering assignments as well as a professor before leaving the Army to pursue a career in civil engineering. At the start of the Civil War, leading troops from Ohio, in 1862 in the Western Theater, he won the battles of Iuka and Corinth while under the command of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. His brusque, outspoken manner and willingness to quarrel openly with superiors caused a rivalry with Grant that would adversely affect Rosecrans career. Besieged in Chattanooga, Rosecrans was relieved of command by Grant, following his humiliating defeat, Rosecrans was reassigned to command the Department of Missouri, where he opposed Prices Raid. He was briefly considered as a vice presidential running mate for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, after the war, he served in diplomatic and appointed political positions and in 1880 was elected to Congress, representing California. William Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio, the second of five sons of Crandall Rosecrans and Jemima Hopkins. Crandall was a veteran of the War of 1812, in which he served as adjutant to General William Henry Harrison, One of Crandalls heroes, General John Stark, was the inspiration for Williams middle name. Rosecrans was descended from Harmon Henrik Rosenkrantz, who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1651 and his mother was the widow of Timothy Hopkins, a relative of Stephen Hopkins, the Colonial Governor of Rhode Island and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. William had little education in his early years, relying heavily on reading books. At the age of 13, he left home to work as a clerk in Utica. Unable to afford college, Rosecrans decided to try for an appointment to the United States Military Academy and he interviewed with Congressman Alexander Harper, who had been reserving his appointment for his own son, but Harper was so impressed by Rosecrans that he nominated him instead. Despite his lack of education, Rosecrans excelled academically at West Point, particularly in mathematics, but also in French, drawing. It was at the academy that he received his nickname, Rosy, or more often Old Rosy. He graduated from West Point in 1842, fifth in his class of 56 cadets, which included future generals such as James Longstreet, Abner Doubleday, D. H. Hill. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the prestigious Corps of Engineers. At his graduation, he met Anna Elizabeth Hegeman of New York City and they were married on August 24,1843
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Edward S. Bragg
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Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was a Democratic politician, lawyer and Union Army general from Wisconsin. He served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887, Bragg was born in Unadilla, New York, the son of Margarette and Joel B. Bragg attended district schools as a child and he then attended the local academy and Geneva College in Geneva, New York, where he was one of the charter members of The Kappa Alpha Society. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848, commencing practice in Unadilla until 1850 when he moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he continued practicing law. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Bragg entered the Union Army as a captain in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment on July 16,1861. He was promoted to major on September 17,1861, lieutenant colonel on June 21,1862, at The Battle of Antietam he was severely wounded. He missed the Gettysburg Campaign due to wounds suffered at the Battle of Chancellorsville, after recovering and returning to his field command, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on June 25,1864, which he served as until being mustered out on October 9,1865. For the latter part of the war, he commanded the famed Iron Brigade, Bragg mustered out in 1865 and returned to Wisconsin to resume his law practice. Following the war, Bragg was appointed postmaster of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin by President Andrew Johnson in 1866, in 1868 he was a delegate to the soldiers and sailors convention in New York City, which nominated Horatio Seymour for President. He was the 1871 Democratic nominee for Wisconsin Attorney General and he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872 which nominated Horace Greeley and B. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate to the United States Senate in 1874, Bragg was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1876 and was reelected in 1878 and 1880, serving from 1877 to 1883, not being a candidate for reelection in 1882. He represented Wisconsins 5th congressional district in the 45th, 46th and it referred to Clevelands conflicts with the corrupt Tammany Hall organization. He also served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs from 1885 to 1887, after not being a candidate for reelection in 1886, Bragg returned to his law practice in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He was appointed general in Havana, Cuba in May,1902. Bragg was a cousin of Frederick William Benteen, a captain of the U. S. 7th Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer. Benteen was a figure in the ill-fated Battle of the Little Bighorn and was singled out by Major Marcus Reno for his leadership during the two days of fighting endured by the survivors. Benteen mentioned his relationship to Bragg in a letter to Theodore Goldin dated February 10,1896, Bragg died in Fond du Lac and was interred in the towns Rienzi Cemetery. List of American Civil War generals United States Congress, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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Richard W. Townshend
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Richard Wellington Townshend was a U. S. Born near Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Townshend moved to Washington and he attended public and private schools. Page in the House of Representatives and he moved to Cairo, Illinois, in 1858. He taught school in Fayette County and he was admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in McLeansboro, Illinois. He served as clerk of the court of Hamilton County 1863-1868. He served as prosecuting attorney for the judicial circuit of Illinois 1868-1872. He served as member of the Democratic State central committee in 1864,1865,1874 and he served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872. He moved to Shawneetown, Illinois, in 1873 and resumed the practice of law, Townshend was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,1877, until his death in Washington, D. C. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy and he was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and this article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov. Works by or about Richard W. Townshend at Internet Archive
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Byron M. Cutcheon
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Byron Mac Cutcheon was an American Civil War officer, Medal of Honor recipient and politician from the U. S. state of Michigan. Cutcheon was born in Pembroke, New Hampshire May 11,1836 but his parents died and he worked in a cotton mill in Pembroke to earn money so he could attend school and at the age of 13, he began attending Pembroke Academy. At the age of 17, he was a teacher in the school but in 1855, he moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan, continuing to study. In 1857, he was invited to take charge of Birmingham Academy in Oakland County as principal, though he intended only to remain long enough to secure means to further progress in his own education. The following spring, he entered the University of Michigan and in the fall of 1859, he worked as principal of the Oak Grove Academy, as soon as he had acquired sufficient means, he again entered the university, and graduated in 1861. Before graduating he had become the principal and was a professor of ancient languages, higher mathematics, on July 29,1862, he was made captain of his company and on October 14,1862, he was made major of the Twentieth Regiment. On November 16,1863, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, War Department, he was made colonel on November 21,1863. He was transferred and made Colonel of the Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry and he remained at the hospital about two months. For gallant conduct on this occasion he received a commission as brevet colonel and he was brevetted brigadier general of U. S. Volunteers, March 13,1865, for conspicuous gallantry on the field of battle. After the war he returned home and entered into the law office of his brother, Sullivan M. Cutcheon, at the time, Sullivan was Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and later became U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. He entered the University of Michigan Law School in 1865 and graduated in March 1866 and he was admitted to practice in Washtenaw County in January 1866. In the Spring of 1866 he was appointed the agent of the Michigan Soldiers Monumental Association. When the association was inaugurated, in 1865, addresses were made on that occasion by Gen. Cutcheon, Hon. Austin Blair, Hon. Jacob M. Howard and Gen. O. B. In this work he traveled all over the state, making appeals to the people, in fall 1866, he moved to Ionia to resume the practice of law. In July 1867, he moved to Manistee and he was appointed a member of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners, 1867-1883. In 1866 he was appointed president of the Michigan Soldiers Home Commission. He served as a Presidential elector from Michigan in 1868, casting votes for the ticket of Ulysses S. Grant and he was elected to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan in 1875 and served until 1883. He was the city attorney of Manistee, 1870–1873, prosecuting attorney of Manistee County in 1873 and 1874, in 1882, Cutcheon was elected as a Republican from Michigans 9th congressional district to the 49th Congress
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Joseph H. Outhwaite
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Joseph Hodson Outhwaite was a U. S. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Outhwaite attended the schools of Zanesville. He taught in Zanesvilles high school from 1862 to 1864, Outhwaite was principal of a grammar school in Columbus, Ohio from 1864 to 1867, studying law while teaching. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and practiced from 1867 to 1871 at Osceola and he served as prosecuting attorney of Franklin County, Ohio from 1874 to 1878. Starting in 1879 he was trustee of the county home, continuing until he was appointed trustee of the fund of the city of Columbus in 1883. Outhwaite was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses and he served as chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads, Committee on Military Affairs. He was appointed a member of the commission to codify the laws of the United States, Outhwaite was Dean of the law school at Ohio State University from 1904 until his death in Columbus on December 9,1907. He is interred in Green Lawn Cemetery, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Joseph H. Outhwaite at Find a Grave This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http, //bioguide. congress. gov
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John A. T. Hull
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John Albert Tiffin Hull was a ten-term Republican U. S. Representative from Iowas 7th congressional district and he had earlier served two terms as the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa and three terms as Iowa Secretary of State. Born in Sabina, Ohio, Hull moved with his parents to Iowa in 1849 and he attended public schools, Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, and Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in the spring of 1862, was admitted to the bar the same year, in July 1862, during the Civil War, he enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was a first lieutenant and captain, resigning due to wounds in October 1863, Hull engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking. He was elected Secretary of the Iowa Senate in 1872, then reelected in 1874,1876 and he was elected Iowa Secretary of State in 1878. He was then elected Lieutenant Governor in 1885, in 1890, Hull was elected as a Republican to the U. S. House seat for Iowas 7th congressional district, which included Iowas largest city. The Fifty-second Congress was unusual for its era, because, for the first time since the Civil War, two years, later, however, there was a Republican resurgence in Iowa, commencing a two-decade era in which Republicans held at least ten of Iowas eleven House seats. During that era, Hull was re-elected nine times and he served as chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs from the Fifty-fourth through Sixty-first Congresses. He was considered a standpatter, and a lieutenant of controversial House Speaker Uncle Joe Cannon and this time, Prouty defeated Hull in the Republican primary, carrying every county. However, two voters wrote in Hulls name for the Prohibition Party nomination, enough to give Hull that partys nomination, nevertheless, Prouty went on to win the general election. In all, Hull served in Congress from March 4,1891 to March 3,1911, after leaving Congress, Hull resumed the practice of law, this time in Washington, D. C. He retired in 1916, died in Clarendon, Virginia on September 26,1928 and his son, Major General John A. Hull, served as Judge Advocate General and later as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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James Hay (politician)
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James Hay was an American politician from Virginia. He was a member of the United States Congress and a judge on the United States Court of Claims, born in Millwood, Virginia, Clarke County, Hay attended private schools and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Hay married Constance Tatum of Dayton, Virginia on October 1,1878 and he moved to Madison, Virginia in June 1879 and continued the practice of law. Hay was Commonwealths Attorney from 1883 to 1896 and member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1885 to 1889, hays first wife died in 1886. On June 9,1891 he married Frances Gordon of Richmond, Virginia, Hay served in the Senate of Virginia from 1893 to 1897, was a member of the Democratic State committee in 1888, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888. Hay was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,1897, following his resignation from Congress, he was appointed judge of the United States Court of Claims by President Woodrow Wilson on July 15,1916. Hays second wife died in 1920, on June 14,1921 he married his secretary, Eloise M. Cave, of Madison, Virginia. Hay served at the court until December 1,1927, when he resigned and he died in Madison, Virginia, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Rapidan, Virginia. 1896, Hay was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives with 55. 81% of the vote, defeating Republican Robert J. Walker, NtD J. Samuel Harrisberger, and Independent John F. Forsyth. 1898, Hay was re-elected with 77. 05% of the vote,1900, Hay was re-elected with 63. 35% of the vote, defeating Republican C. M. 1902, Hay was re-elected with 64. 68% of the vote,1904, Hay was re-elected with 64. 65% of the vote, defeating Republican Charles M. Kelzel. 1908, Hay was re-elected with 62. 85% of the vote,1910, Hay was re-elected with 57. 96% of the vote, defeating Republican John Paul and Independent Hugh S. Lupton. 1912, Hay was re-elected with 71. 54% of the vote, defeating Republican George N. Earman,1914, Hay was re-elected with 86. 96% of the vote, defeating Republican E. C. Garrison. Herring, George C. Jr. “James Hay and the Preparedness Controversy, 1915-1916. ”Journal of Southern History 30, biographical Directory of the United States Congress. The United States Court of Claims, a history / pt.1, the judges, 1855-1976 / by Marion T. Bennett / pt.2. Origin, development, jurisdiction, 1855-1978 / W. Cowen, P. Nichols, committee on the Bicentennial of Independence and the Constitution of the Judicial Conference of the United States
