Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-10
GEORGIANS WHO HAVE
REPRESENTED THEIR STATE
IN UNITED STATES SENATE
By RALPH SMITH.

crosses. but resigned to enter the United
| states senate, to which he mad been elect
J ed by the legislature. Senator Hill entered
congress To MI the vacancy caused by
/ the death of Garrett Mcmillan. Senator
| hill look his seat In the senate on Marcn
| ., 1851 ana dled IN Atlanta on August
/ ~, 1882.
! Gen. John b. Gordon was native of
| Epson county, Ga. he was graduated
| from the University OF Georgia, read law
and was admitted to the bar. At the be-
! ginning of the war, he entered the ar
| my captain of infantry, ana occupied
! the positions of major, Northumberland,
| colonel, brigadier-general and major-gen-
! eral, respectively. He was first elected
| TO the senate as Democrat, in 1872, and
took his seat the following year, 1915,
! serving until March 3, 1855, having been
reelected in the meantime. He was elect
ed governor in 1856, and reelected in 1883,
Again in 1880 he was elected to the senate.
| serving from March 4, 1881, to March 3,
1897. He died in Florida in 1904.
| SENATOR BROWNS HISTORY.
! Joseph Z. Brown was native of South
/ Carolina, and educated at the Calhoun
! academy, South Carolina. He moved to
| Georgia in early childhood with his par
ents. He was admitted to the bar, and
! afterwards graduated from Yale law
! school. He began the practice of law in
| 1876. Three years later he was elected to
1 the senate, and in 1852 was a Pierce
elector. He was elected judge of the SUI
| perior court of the Blue Ridge circuit in
| 1855, and in the same year was elected
! governor by the Democratic party. He
was reelected in 1859; advocated seces-
sion and was the active war governor:
nominated by the Republicans for United
| States senator in 1865 and defeated; SUBJ
| sequently appointed by Governor Bullock
/ chief of the supreme court of Georgia,
which position he held until 1870, when
he resigned and accepted the presidency
! of the Western and Atlantic railroad APP
! pointed to the senate upon the resignation
of General Gordon, and afterwards was
elected, and served continuously until
March 8, 1891. He died in Atlanta in
| 1894.
Pope Barrow was born in Oglethorpe
county in 1889. lie was graduated from
the University of Georgia in the class
of 1859, and in the law class of 1860. He
, entered the Confederate service in 1851,
! and served as aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen.
Howell Cobb. He resumed the practice
of law at Athens, was a member of the
constitutional convention of 1877 and of
the state Legislature in 1880 and 1881.
he was elected to the senate November
Is, 1882, to fill the vacancy causel by
the death of Senator Hill. He served I'M
Ill NldTCn D, 1893. he ul6Q at savannah.
ALFRED HOLT UOLQUITT.
Alfred Holt Colquitt was born in Wal
ton county April 20, 1924. Graduated
from Princeton, he studied law and was
! admitted to the bar in 1S45. He served
as STAFF officer, with the rank of ma
jor, during the Mexican war. Elected to
the 33d congress. Was a member OF the
Legislature in 1859, and presidential cleo
| tor on Breckenridge ticket in 1860, from
fl,n tot of lnn ,I&0,. 81
sion convention entered the Confeder-
ate service as captain; was colonel of the
Sixth Georgia infantry, served as brig
adler general, and was commissioned a
major general; was elected governor of
the state in 1876 for four yeats; re-
elected under the new constitution for
| two years; elected to the senate as a
Democrat for the full term, commencing
March 4, 1888; reelected and served UNI
til his death in Washington. D. c.. March
80, 1884,
Patrick Walsh was born in Ballingarry
county, Limerick, ireland, January l,
1910. His parents settled in Charleston,
S. c. He became Journeyman printer
in 1857, after learning his trade at a
night school; earned sufficient money TO
cradle him to enter Georgetown college,
district of columbia, 1859, where he re-
manned untn April Is, 1861. He entered
the South Carolina military service, and
moved to Augusta in 1862. For 81 years
was connected with the press of that
city, as the managing editor of the Au-
gusta Chronicle. was a member of the
Legislature from 1872 to 1876, and elected
a delegate at large 20 the national COR
vention at Chicago in 1884. He served
four years as Democratic national COM
mitteeman from Georgia, appointed SEN
ator from Georgia ~ Governor Northen
April 2, 1894, to succeed the late Senator
! Alfred II. Colquitt. He died in Augusta.
| Ga, In 1900
OUR PRESENT SENATORS.
Augustus Octavius Bacon was born In
Bryan county, October 20, 1889. He receiv-
ed high school education in Liberty and
Troup counties. He graduated at the Uni
versity of Georgia, in 1859, and in the law
class of 1860. He entered the Confederate
| army at the beginning of the war, and
| served until it's close in 1866 when he re-
| sumed the study of law and began prac-
tice at Macon. Was a delegate to the
| Democratic convention at Chicago in
| 1854; was presidential elector on the
| Democratic ticket in 1868; elected to the
| Georgia legislature in 1871, of which body
| he was a member for IA years. He was
speaker of the house for eight years,
and several times a candidate for the
| Democratic nomination for governor. In
! the convention of 1883 he came within one
vote of getting the nomination. He was
elected to the L. S. senate as a Demo-
crat in November, 1894, and again IN
/ 1900 and 1906.
| Alexander Stephens Clay is a native of
1 Cobb county, his present home. He was
born September %, 1858. He received his
primary and preparatory education in the
| country schools and the high school at
/ Palmetto. He was graduated from Hia-
wassee college, in 1875. He taught school
| two years, studied law, admitted to the
bar in 1877 and began practice; member
of the city council of Marietta in 1880 and
! 1881; represented Cobb county in the leg
! islature from 1884 to 1887, and in the
/ latter term was elected speaker pro
! tempore; elected in 1889 and served as
| speaker for two years; elected to the
state senate in 1892 and served as presi-
| dent of that body for two years. He was
| chairman of the state Democratic COM
mittee in 1894. and conducted the state
| ca mpaign between the Democrats and
| Populists in that year. He was elected
| to the United States senate, to succeed
John B. Gordon, in October, 1896, and
| was reelected in 1908 and 1909. His term