Georgia   Biographies  Hugh Buchanan

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HUGH BUCHANAN

     Hugh Buchanan, Representative to the Congress of the United States from the Fourth District of Georgia, was born in Scotland, September 15, 1823.  He was admitted to the Bar of Georgia in December, 1845.  In 1855 he was elected to the Senate of that State, and in 1857 was re-elected, as a Democrat.
     In 1860 he was an elector on the Breckenridge and Lane ticket.  In the civil war he was a Captain of cavalry in the Confederate service and was seriously wounded in Virginia.  In 1865 he was re-elected a Representative to Congress from his district, but was not admitted to a seat in that body.  In 1872 he was a Judge of the Superior Court of Georgia.
     In 1876 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati.  In 1880 he was nominated for Representative to the Forty-seventh Congress, and thereupon resigning his judicial office, was elected to that Congress, as a Democrat, by a majority of 2,774-- the vote standing 9,998 votes for him, against 7,224 for Pow, Independent Democrat.  Mr. Buchanan is thoroughly southern in his sympathies and predilections, and will doubless render efficient service to the national halls of legislation,and do honor to himself and his constituency.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 303.

[Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge,  barbarawinge@yahoo.com]





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