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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasJames Henderson BERRY
(1841-1913)
Senate Years of Service:
1885-1907Party: DemocratBERRY, James Henderson,
(cousin of Campbell Polson Berry), a Senator from Arkansas; born in
Jackson County, Ala., May 15, 1841; moved to Arkansas with his
parents, who settled in Carroll County in 1848; attended a private
school in Berryville, Ark.; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as
a second lieutenant, Sixteenth Regiment, Arkansas Infantry; lost a
leg in the Battle of Corinth, Miss., in 1862; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Berryville, Carroll
County, Ark.; elected to the State house of representatives in
1866; reelected in 1872, and served as speaker in 1874; moved to
Bentonville, Ark., in 1869 and continued the practice of law;
chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1876; judge of the
circuit court 1878-1882; elected Governor of Arkansas in 1882;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1885 to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Augustus H. Garland;
reelected in 1889, 1895, and 1901, and served from March 20, 1885,
to March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906;
chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Fifty-third Congress),
Committee on Engrossed Bills (Fifty-ninth Congress); died in
Bentonville, Benton County, Ark., January 30, 1913; interment in
the Knights of Pythias Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Berry, James. An
Autobiography of James Berry. Bentonville, Ark.: Democrat
Press, 1913; Mulhollan, Paige E. “The Issues of the
Davis-Berry Senatorial Campaign in 1906.” Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 20 (Summer 1961): 118-25.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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