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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaDudley Mays HUGHES
(1848-1927)
HUGHES, Dudley Mays, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Jeffersonville, Twiggs County,
Ga., October 10, 1848; attended the country schools; was graduated
from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1870; engaged in
agricultural pursuits in 1871; member of the State senate in 1882
and 1883; president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society
1904-1906; commissioner general of Georgia at the World’s
Fair, St. Louis, Mo., in 1904; trustee of the Danville School, the
State Normal Institute, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia
State Agricultural College; president of the Georgia Fruit
Growers’ Association; one of the original projectors and
builders of the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad and served as
president and director; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3,
1917); chairman, Committee on Education (Sixty-third and
Sixty-fourth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1916; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Danville, Ga.; died in
Macon, Bibb County, Ga., January 20, 1927; interment in Evergreen
Cemetery, Perry, Houston County, Ga.
Bibliography
Jones, Billy Walker. Vocational Legacy: Biography of Dudley Mays
Hughes. Macon, Ga.: The Author, 1976.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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