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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaJabez Lamar Monroe CURRY
(1825-1903)
CURRY, Jabez Lamar Monroe,
a Representative from Alabama; born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5, 1825; moved with his father to Talladega
County, Ala., in 1838; was graduated from the University of Georgia
at Athens in 1843; studied law at Harvard University; was admitted
to the bar and commenced practice in Talladega County in 1845;
served in the war with Mexico as a private in the Texas Rangers in
1846, but resigned because of ill health; member of the State house
of representatives in 1847, 1853, and 1855; elected as a Democrat
to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from
March 4, 1857, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; deputy from
Alabama to the Provisional Confederate Congress and a
Representative in the First Confederate Congress; during the Civil
War served as lieutenant colonel of Cavalry in the Confederate
Army; after the war became a Baptist preacher; chosen president of
Howard College, Alabama, in 1865; professor in Richmond College,
Virginia, 1868-1881; agent of the Peabody and States Funds from
1881 until his death; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to Spain on October 7, 1885, and served until
August 6, 1888, when he resigned; appointed Ambassador
Extraordinary on special mission to Spain (the coming of age of the
King) February 3, 1902; died in Victoria, near Asheville, N.C.,
February 12, 1903; interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond,
Va.
Bibliography
Alderman, Edwin A., and Armistead Gordon. J.L.M. Curry: A
Biography. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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