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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | James Henderson Blount |
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Macon, Georgia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 12, 1837
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| Died | March 08, 1903
(65 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | eddy 9_99
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| Info | BLOUNT, James Henderson, a Representative from Georgia; born near Clinton, Jones County, Ga., September 12, 1837; attended private schools in Clinton, Ga., and Tuscaloosa, Ala.; was graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Clinton, Jones County, Ga.; moved to Macon, Ga., in 1872 and continued the practice of law; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a private in the Second Georgia Battalion, Floyd Rifles, for two years, and was later lieutenant colonel for two years; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Fifty-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; appointed by President Cleveland commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands on March 20, 1893; retired from that position in 1893 and devoted his time to his plantation interests; died in Macon, Ga., March 8, 1903; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
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