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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasAndrew Jackson HAMILTON
(1815-1875)
HAMILTON, Andrew Jackson,
(brother of Morgan Calvin Hamilton), a Representative from Texas;
born in Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., January 28, 1815;
attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in Talladega, Ala., in 1841; moved to Texas and commenced the
practice of law in Lagrange, Fayette County, in 1846; attorney
general of the State in 1850; member of the State house of
representatives 1851-1853; elected as an Independent Democrat to
the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1860; moved to New Orleans, La., in
1862; during the Civil War was commissioned brigadier general of
Volunteers November 14, 1862; appointed by President Lincoln
Military Governor of Texas in 1862; appointed provisional Governor
by President Johnson in 1865; justice of the supreme court of Texas
in 1866; delegate to the Loyalist convention at Philadelphia in
1866; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Texas in 1869; died in
Austin, Tex., April 11, 1875; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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