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Source:             Atlanta Constitution - 6 January 1910
Name:               James Mathews Griggs
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Atlanta Constitution - 6 January 1910:

Congressman Griggs Summoned By Death
Dawson, Ga, January 5 - (Special) This afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock,
Congressman James M. Griggs died suddenly in bed, while apparently
convalescing from a supposed slight attack of heart trouble.

Judge Griggs left Washington Friday, December 17, to come home for the
Christmas holidays, and after his arrival here, went on, with his family,
to the home of his father-in-law, ex-State Senator D. R. Stewart, in
Randolph county, who had been in very poor health.

Yesterday morning Judge Griggs and his wife returned to Dawson, and the
congressman went to bed immediately, complaining of feeling very unwell.
Doctors were called in, and he was supposed to be on the road to recovery
when the end came suddenly this afternoon. He had already made
preparations to return to his duties in Washington.

This morning Judge Griggs felt better, and he had a barber shave him, after
which he expressed his purpose to go up town, but his physician told him he
must not do so. This afternoon Judge Griggs and his wife were in their
room on separate beds. Noticing that her husband was breathing hard, Mrs.
Griggs directed a girl in the room to arouse him. Seeing that when spoken
to and touched by the girl, Judge Griggs gave no response, Mrs. Griggs
became alarmed, and as sick as she was, rushed to his bedside. She was
unable to get any response to her call or touch, and within a few moments
Judge Griggs ceased to breathe, and it was realized that he was dead. The
physicians pronounced his death due to a stroke of apoplexy. Colleagues in
Washington have been notified, but funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

James Mathews Griggs was born at LaGrange, Ga., on March 29, 1861, and was
educated in the common schools of Georgia and at the Peabody Normal
College, at Nashville, Tenn., from which institution he was graduated in
May 1881. After graduation, he taught school and studied law. He was
admitted to the bar in 1883, and commenced the practice of his profession
in 1884 at Alapaha, Berrien county, Georgia. He was for a short time
connected with the newspaper business, but moved to Dawson in 1885, where
he was elected solicitor general of the Pataula circuit in 1888, and was
reelected in 1892. He resigned this position in 1893, and was appointed
judge of the circuit, and was twice reelected without opposition.

He resigned this office in 1895 to make the race for congress. He was a
delegate to the national democratic convention of 1892; was chairman of the
democratic congressional campaign committee in 1904 and 1905, and was
elected to the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth,
fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses, being reelected over Judge S.
Anderson Roddenbery after one of the most spirited campaigns in the history
of the district.

[The following photo of Congressman Griggs accompanied the article.]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/terrell/photos/griggs24245ph.jpg

Additional Comments:
The political graveyard lists his burial at cedar hill cemetery Dawson GA
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffis-grim.html
Griggs, James Mathews (1861-1910) — also known as James M. Griggs — of Dawson, 
Terrell County, Ga. 
Born in Georgia, 1861. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention 
from Georgia, 1892; 
U.S. Representative from Georgia 2nd District, 1897-1910; died in office 1910. 
Died January 5, 1910. 
Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Dawson, Ga. 

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