Biography of Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery, Alabama

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HILARY A. HERBERT, OF ALABAMA

     Hilary A. Herbert, of Montgomery, who represents the Second Congressional 
     District of Alabama in the National House of Representatives, was born at 
     Laurensville, in the State of South Carolina, March 12, 1834.  In the year 
     1846 he removed to Greenville, Butler County, Alabama.  In 1853-54 he was a 
     student at the University of Alabama, and in 1855-56 attended the University 
     of Virginia.  After completing his classical course he read law, and having 
     finished his preparatory studies, was admitted to the Bar.  When the Civil War 
     came on he entered the Confederate army as Captain, and soon after was promoted 
     to the rank of Colonel of the Eighth Alabama Volunteers.  At the battle of the 
     Wilderness, May 06, 1864, he was disabled, and returning to civil life, resumed 
     the practice of his profession at Greenville, Alabama, continuing business there 
     until 1872, when he removed to Montgomery, where he now resides.  He was elected 
     to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, and re-elected to the Forty-seventh 
     Congress, as a Democrat, by a majority of 4,387 votes.

     Mr. Herbert has now entered upon his third term in Congress, and can ask no further 
     commendation as a faithful representative of his constituents than their repeated e
     ndorsements of him at the polls.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 418.