Terrell-Troup County GaArchives Biographies.....Griggs, James Mathews 1861 - 1910
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Author: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

GRIGGS, James Mathews, (1861 - 1910) 


GRIGGS, James Mathews, a Representative from Georgia; born in Lagrange, Troup 
County, Ga., March 29, 1861; attended the common schools and was graduated from 
the Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tenn., in 1881; taught school and 
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced the practice of law 
in Alapaha, Berrien County, Ga.; engaged in the newspaper business; moved to 
Dawson, Ga., in 1885; elected by the legislature solicitor general of the 
Pataula judicial circuit in 1888; reelected in 1892 and served until his 
resignation in 1893 to accept appointment by the Governor as judge of the 
Pataula judicial circuit; elected to the same office by the legislature; 
reelected and served until his resignation in 1896 to accept the Democratic 
nomination for Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 
1892; chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee 1904-1908; 
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses 
and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Dawson, Ga., January 5, 1910; 
interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


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