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BLOUNT, James Henderson, a Representative from Georgia; born near Clinton, Jones County, Ga.,
September 12, 1837; attended private schools in Clinton, Ga., and Tuscaloosa,
Ala.; was graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1858; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Clinton, Jones
County, Ga.; moved to Macon, Ga., in 1872 and continued the practice of law;
during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a private in the Second
Georgia Battalion, Floyd Rifles, for two years, and was later lieutenant
colonel for two years; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1873-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Post Office and
Post Roads (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs
(Fifty-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892;
appointed by President Cleveland commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands on March
20, 1893; retired from that position in 1893 and devoted his time to his
plantation interests; died in Macon, Ga., March 8, 1903; interment in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
BibliographyMcWilliams, Tennant S., James H. Blount, the South, and Hawaiian
Annexation.
The Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 1 (February 1988):
pp. 25-46.
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