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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasThomas Carmichael HINDMAN
(1828-1868)
HINDMAN, Thomas
Carmichael, a Representative from Arkansas; born in
Knoxville, Tenn., January 28, 1828; moved with his parents to
Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Ala., in 1832 and to Ripley, Tippah
County, Miss., in 1841; attended public and private schools; was
graduated from the Lawrenceville Classical Institute near
Princeton, N.J., in 1846; raised a company in Tippah County in 1846
for the Second Mississippi Regiment under Colonel Clark in the war
with Mexico; served throughout the war as lieutenant and later as
captain of his company; returned to Ripley, Miss.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Ripley,
Miss.; member of the State house of representatives in 1854-1856;
moved to Helena, Ark., in 1853 and continued the practice of law;
elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4,
1859-March 3, 1861); reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress in
1860 but declined to take his seat and raised and commanded
“Hindman’s legion” in 1861 for the Confederate
Army; commissioned brigadier general September 28, 1861, and major
general April 18, 1862; moved to the city of Mexico after the war
and engaged in literary pursuits; returned to Helena, Ark., in 1868
and resumed the practice of law; was assassinated in that city on
September 27, 1868; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Nash, Charles Edward. Biographical Sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne
and Gen. T.C. Hindman, Together With Humorous Anecdotes and
Reminiscences of the Late Civil War. Little Rock, Ark.: Tunnah
& Pittard, printers, 1898. Reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Press of
Morningside Bookshop, 1977.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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