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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeHorace MAYNARD
(1814-1882)
MAYNARD, Horace, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Westboro, Worcester County,
Mass., August 30, 1814; attended the common schools of Westboro and
the Millbury (Mass.) Academy, where he afterward taught, and
graduated from Amherst College, Mass., in 1838; professor at the
University of East Tennessee 1839-1844; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.;
unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the Thirty-third
Congress in 1853; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1852
and on the Republican ticket in 1864; elected as an American Party
candidate to the Thirty-fifth Congress, as an Opposition Party
candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and as a Unionist to the
Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1863); attorney
general of Tennessee 1863-1865; delegate to the Southern Loyalist
Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; upon the readmission of the
State of Tennessee to representation was elected as an
Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress and reelected
as a Republican to the four succeeding Congresses and served from
July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1875; chairman, Committee on Banking and
Currency (Forty-third Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1874; unsuccessful Republican candidate for
Governor of Tennessee in 1874; Minister to Turkey from March 9,
1875, until May 1880; appointed Postmaster General in the Cabinet
of President Hayes and served from June 2, 1880, to March 5, 1881;
died in Knoxville, Tenn., May 3, 1882; interment in Old Gray
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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