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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaJames Henderson BLOUNT
(1837-1903)
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.
Bibliography
McWilliams, Tennant S., “James H. Blount, the South, and
Hawaiian Annexation.” The Pacific Historical Review,
Vol. 57, No. 1 (February 1988): pp. 25-46.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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