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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJames Addison CRAVENS
(1818-1893)
CRAVENS, James Addison,
(second cousin of James Harrison Cravens), a Representative from
Indiana; born in Rockingham County, Va., November 4, 1818; moved
with his father to Indiana in 1820 and settled near Hardinsburg,
Madison Township, Washington County; attended the public schools;
engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; served in the
war with Mexico as major of the Second Indiana Volunteers in 1846
and 1847; member of the State house of representatives in 1848 and
1849; served in the State senate 1850-1853; commissioned brigadier
general of militia in 1854; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3,
1865); was not a candidate for renomination in 1864; delegate to
the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in
1866 and to the Democratic National Convention in 1868; resumed
agricultural pursuits; died in Hardinsburg, Washington County,
Ind., June 20, 1893; interment in the Hardin Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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