Biography of William Henry Forney, Calhoun, Alabama

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WILLIAM H. FORNEY, OF ALABAMA

     William Henry Forney, of Jacksonville, who represents the Seventh 
     Congressional District of Alabama in the National Congress, was 
     born at Lincolnton, in the State of North Carolina, November 09, 
     1823.  He received a classical education at the University of Alabama, 
     where he graduated in the class of 1844.  He was a soldier in the Mexican 
     War, serving in the First regiment of Alabama Volunteers as First Lieutenant.  
     After leaving military life he began the study of law, was admitted to the Bar 
     in 1848, and has continued in the practice of that profession to the present time.  
     The Legislature of Alabama elected him a Trustee of the University of Alabama, 
     in which capacity he acted from 1851 in 1860.  In the year 1859-60 he was Representative 
     to the State Legislature of Alabama.  At the commencement of the Civil War in 1861, 
     he entered the Confederate army as Captain, and was successively promoted to Major, 
     Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and Brigadier-General.  He continued in that army until 
     the close of the war, being among those who surrendered at Appomatox Court House.  
     In the year 1865-66 he was a member of the State Senate of Alabama, filling that office 
     until the State was reconstructed.  He was elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, 
     and Forty-sixth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, as a Democrat.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 390.