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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaThomas Wingfield GRIMES
(1844-1905)
GRIMES, Thomas Wingfield,
a Representative from Georgia; born in Columbus, Muscogee County,
Ga., December 18, 1844; attended private schools and was graduated
from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1863; studied law; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Columbus, Ga.; served
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War for eighteen months
with Nelson’s rangers, Gen. S. D. Lee’s escort company;
member of the State house of representatives in 1868, 1869, 1875,
and 1876; member of the State senate in 1878 and 1879; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention in 1880; solicitor general of
the Chattahoochee circuit from 1880 to 1888, when he resigned;
elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses
(March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Columbus, Ga., and died there on October 28,
1905; interment in Linwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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