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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasGuy Morrison BRYAN
(1821-1901)
BRYAN, Guy Morrison, a
Representative from Texas; born in Herculaneum, Jefferson County,
Mo., January 12, 1821; moved to the Mexican State of Texas in 1831
with his parents, who settled near San Felipe; attended private
schools; joined the Texas Army at San Jacinto in 1836; was
graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1842; studied law,
but never practiced; engaged in planting; served as a private in
the Brazoria company, under the command of Captain Ballowe, during
the Mexican War with the Texas Volunteers on the eastern bank of
the Rio Grande; member of the State house of representatives
1847-1853; served in the State senate 1853-1857; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1856; chairman of the Texas
delegation in the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in
1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,
1857-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858;
during the Civil War served as volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff
of General Herbert and afterwards as assistant adjutant general,
with the rank of major, of the trans-Mississippi Department;
established a cotton bureau in Houston, Tex., in order to escape
the blockade along the Gulf; moved to Galveston, Tex., in 1872;
again a member of the State house of representatives in 1873, 1879,
and 1887-1891, and served as speaker in 1873; moved to Quintana,
Tex., in 1890 and to Austin, Travis County, Tex., in 1898; elected
president of the Texas Veterans Association in 1892 and served
until his death in Austin, Tex., June 4, 1901; interment in the
State Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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