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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeGeorge Washington BRIDGES
(1825-1873)
BRIDGES, George
Washington, a Representative from Tennessee; born in
Charleston, Bradley County, Tenn., October 9, 1825; attended East
Tennessee University at Knoxville; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Athens, McMinn County, Tenn.;
also engaged in agricultural pursuits; attorney general of
Tennessee 1849-1860; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh
Congress, but was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to
Washington, D.C., taken back to Tennessee, and held as a prisoner
for more than a year; finally made his escape and went to
Washington, D.C., and assumed his duties; qualified and took his
seat in the House of Representatives on February 25, 1863, and
served until March 3, 1863; enlisted in the Union Army as a captain
on August 25, 1863; mustered in as a lieutenant colonel in the
Tenth Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry February 23, 1864, and was
discharged December 29, 1864; elected circuit judge of the fourth
judicial district of Tennessee in 1866 and served about one year;
died in Athens, Tenn., March 16, 1873; interment in Cedar Grove
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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