Biography of Senator James L. Pugh, Barbour, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/barbour/bios/jlpugh.txt ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Barbara Walker Winge ================================================================================ March 2002 JAMES L. PUGH, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ALABAMA James L. Pugh is a Georgian by nativity, having been born in Burke County, in that State, December 12, 1820. When only four years of age the family removed to Alabama and it became his permanent residence. After the usual course of instruction in the schools, he pursued an academic course, and then commenced preparation for the Bar. In 1841 Mr. Pugh was admitted to the practice of his chosen profession. Eufaula, Alabama, near the southeastern border of Georgia, was then selected as his future home and theater of action. He was Presidential elector in 1848, and in 1856. Without opposition, Mr. Pugh was made a member of Congress in 1859; and about a year later he resigned his seat in the Thirty-sixth Congress, when his State passed the ordinance of secession. He enlisted in the Confederate army with the Eufaula Rifles, First Alabama regiment. The same year he was elected to the Confederate Congress, and left the field of battle for the deliberations of that body. Upon the expiration of his term, in 1863, he was reelected. In 1875 he was a member of the Convention which framed the State Constitution. George S. Houston, Senator from Alabama, died in 1880, and Mr. Pugh was elected as a Democrat to fill our the unexpired term of five years, taking his seat December 6th of that year. Ref: Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 239. [Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge, barbarawinge@yahoo.com]