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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeEdward Isaac GOLLADAY
(1830-1897)
GOLLADAY, Edward Isaac,
(brother of Jacob Shall Golladay), a Representative from Tennessee;
born in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn., September 9, 1830; attended
the common schools and was graduated from the literary department
of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1848 and from the law
department of the same institution in 1849; was admitted to the bar
in 1849 and commenced practice in Lebanon; member of the State
house of representatives in 1857 and 1858; presidential elector on
the Constitutional-Union ticket of Bell and Everett in 1860; served
in the Confederate Army as a colonel during the entire Civil War;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4,
1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872
to the Forty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Lebanon
and Nashville; died in Columbia, S.C., while on a visit to his
daughter, July 11, 1897; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery,
Lebanon, Tenn.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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