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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Harrell FELTON
(1823-1909)
FELTON, William Harrell,
(husband of Rebecca Latimer Felton), a Representative from Georgia;
born near Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Ga., June 19, 1823;
attended the common and primary schools; was graduated from the
University of Georgia at Athens in 1843 and from the Medical
College of Georgia at Augusta in 1844; practiced medicine, taught
school, and also engaged in agricultural pursuits near
Cartersville, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives
from Cass (now Bartow) County in 1851; ordained as a Methodist
minister in 1857; served as a surgeon during the Civil War; elected
as an Independent Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and
Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress;
resumed his activity as a minister and again followed agricultural
pursuits; again served in the State house of representatives
1884-1890; trustee from the State at large for the University of
Georgia 1886-1892; died in Cartersville, Ga., September 24, 1909;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Jones, George L. “William H. Felton and the Independent
Democratic Movement in Georgia, 1870-1890.” Ph.D. diss.,
University of Georgia, 1971; Roberts, William P. “The Public
Career of Dr. William Harrell Felton.” Ph.D. diss.,
University of North Carolina, 1953.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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