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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasChristopher Columbus UPSON
(1829-1902)
UPSON, Christopher
Columbus, a Representative from Texas; born near Syracuse,
Onondaga County, N.Y., October 17, 1829; attended the common
schools and Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Syracuse,
N.Y., in 1851; moved to San Antonio, Tex., in 1854 and engaged in
the practice of law; during the Civil War served in the Confederate
Army as a volunteer aide, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of
Gen. W.H.C. Whiting; appointed by the Confederacy associate justice
of Arizona in 1862; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Gustave
Schleicher; reelected to the Forty-seventh Congress and served from
April 15, 1879, to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law in San Antonio,
Tex., and died there February 8, 1902; interment in Confederate
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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