Georgia   Biographies  N.J. Hammond

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N. J. HAMMOND

N. J. Hammond, of Atlanta, represents the Fifth
Congressional District of Georgia in the National Congress. 
He was born in Elbert County, in that State, December 26,
1833, and was educated at the University of Georgia,
graduating at that institution in 1852.  Upon the completion
of his classical course he began the study of law, was
admitted to the Bar, and has continued in legal practice
since 1853.  From 1861 to 1865 he was Solicitor-General of
the Supreme Court of that State, and from 1872 to 1877 was
Attorney-General.  He was a member of the State
Constitutional Conventions of 1865 and 1877.  Mr. Hammond
was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress and re-elected to
the Forth-seventh Congess, as a Democrat, by a vote of
11,947, against 7,133 for his Republican opponent.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S.
Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 403.

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





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