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EMORY SPEER

     Emory Speer, of Athens, who represents the Ninth Congressional District of Georgia in the Congress of the United States, was born at Culloden, Monroe County, in that State, September 03, 1848.  He received a classical education, graduating at the University of Georgia in August, 1869.  He read law at the Law-school of the same University and under the instructin of the Hon. B. H. Hill.  He entered the Confederate army when sixteen years of age, as a volunteer in the Fifth Kentucky regiment, Lewis' Brigade, and remained with that command until the surrender of the Confederate forces.  He began the practice of law at Athens in the winter of 1869.  In 1873 he was appointed Solicitor-General for the eleven counties embraced in the Western Judicial Circuit, and having held this office for a period of three years resigned it.  In March, 1877, he was a candidate for Congress, but was defeated in the election to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of the Honorable B. H. Hill to the United States Senate.  He was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, as an "Independent Democrat," by a vote of 12,653, against 8,589 for H. P. Bell, the regular Democratic candidate.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Hartford, p. 575.

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