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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaSeaborn REESE
(1846-1907)
REESE, Seaborn, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Madison, Morgan County, Ga.,
November 28, 1846; attended a private school for boys in Hancock
County and the University of Georgia at Athens, which institution
he left in his senior year, 1868; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1871 and commenced practice in Madison, Ga.; moved to
Augusta and then to Sparta; member of the General Assembly of
Georgia 1872-1874; solicitor general of the northern judicial
circuit 1877-1880; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander
H. Stephens; reelected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses and served from December 4, 1882, to March 3, 1887;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department
(Forty-ninth Congress); judge of the northern judicial circuit
1893-1900; died in Sparta, Hancock County, Ga., March 1, 1907;
interment in the Methodist Church Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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