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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaAlfred Holt COLQUITT
(1824-1894)
Senate Years of Service:
1883-1894Party: DemocratCOLQUITT, Alfred Holt,
(son of Walter Terry Colquitt), a Representative and a Senator from
Georgia; born in Monroe, Walton County, Ga., April 20, 1824;
attended school in Monroe and graduated from Princeton College in
1844; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced
practice in Monroe, Ga.; served as a staff officer with the rank of
major during the Mexican War; elected to the Thirty-third Congress
(March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1854; member, State house of representatives 1859; member of the
State secession convention in 1861; entered the Confederate Army
and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of major
general; Governor of Georgia 1876-1880; reelected under a new
constitution for two years; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1883; reelected in 1888 and served from March 4,
1883, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1894;
chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Fifty-third
Congress); interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County,
Ga.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Wynne, Lewis. ‘The
Bourbon Triumvirate: A Reconsideration.’ Atlanta
Historical Journal 24 (Summer 1980): 39-56; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses for Alfred Holt Colquitt. 53d Cong., 3d
sess., 1895. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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