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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Vannoy H. Manning |
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Holly Springs, Mississippi , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
July 26, 1839 |
| Died |
November 03, 1892
(53 years) |
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | MANNING, Vannoy Hartrog (Van), a Representative from Mississippi; born near Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., July 26, 1839; moved with his parents to Mississippi in 1841; attended Horn Lake Male Academy, De Soto County, Miss., and the University of Nashville, Tennessee; moved to Arkansas in 1860; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Hamburg, Ark.; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a captain and subsequently as colonel of the Third Arkansas Infantry and Second Arkansas Battalion; after the war resumed the practice of law in Holly Springs, Miss.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-eighth Congress but did not qualify, and on June 25, 1884, the seat was awarded to James R. Chalmers, who contested his election; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1883; died in Branchville, Prince Georges County, Md., November 3, 1892; interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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