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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaHenry Gray TURNER
(1839-1904)
TURNER, Henry Gray, a
Representative from Georgia; born near Henderson, Franklin County,
N.C., March 20, 1839; attended the common schools and the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; moved to Brooks
County, Ga., in 1859 and taught school; enlisted in the Confederate
Army as a private in 1861, and served throughout the Civil War,
attaining the rank of captain; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1865 and commenced practice in Quitman, Ga.; member of the State
house of representatives 1874-1876; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1876; again served in the State house of
representatives in 1878 and 1879; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1881-March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Elections (Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of the Interior (Fifty-third Congress); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of law in
Quitman, Ga.; appointed associate justice of the supreme court of
Georgia in 1903; died in Raleigh, N.C., June 9, 1904; interment in
West End Cemetery, Quitman, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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