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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaDudley McIver DU BOSE
(1834-1883)
DU BOSE, Dudley McIver, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Shelby County, Tenn., October
28, 1834; attended the University of Mississippi at Oxford, and was
graduated from the Lebanon (Tenn.) Law School in 1856; was admitted
to the bar in 1857 and commenced the practice of law in Memphis,
Tenn.; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1860; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War as colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment,
Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently became brigadier
general in the Western Army; moved to Washington, Wilkes County,
Ga.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4,
1871-March 3, 1873); resumed the practice of law; died in
Washington, Ga., March 2, 1883; interment in Rest Haven
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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