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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaGeorge Eliphaz SPENCER
(1836-1893)
Senate Years of Service:
1868-1879Party: RepublicanSPENCER, George Eliphaz, a
Senator from Alabama; born in Champion, Jefferson County, N.Y.,
November 1, 1836; pursued classical studies; attended Montreal
College, Canada; moved to Iowa; secretary of the State senate in
1856; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced;
during the Civil War entered the Union Army as a captain, and when
he resigned in 1865 was brevetted brigadier general for gallantry
on the field; resumed the practice of law in Decatur, Ala.;
appointed register in bankruptcy for the fourth district of Alabama
1867; upon the readmission of Alabama to representation in 1868 was
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in
1872 and served from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1879; chairman,
Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-fourth Congress),
Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-fifth Congress); retired to
his ranch in Nevada; died in Washington, D.C., February 19, 1893;
interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Watson, Elbert L. “George
Eliphaz Spencer.” In Alabama United States Senators,
pp. 73-76. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1982; Woolfolk, Sarah
Van V. “George E. Spencer: A Carpetbagger in Alabama.”
Alabama Review 19 (January 1966): 41-52.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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