CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  JOSEPH L. HOGG - Cherokee County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOSEPH L. HOGG.

Joseph L. Hogg, of Rusk, was born in Georgia.  His father, Thomas Hogg, 
was a native of South Carolina, and his grandfather, John Hogg, was 
born in Virginia. The sub­ject of this sketch removed in 1818 with his 
parents to Tus­caloosa, Alabama, where he was reared and educated.  In 
1833 he was married to Miss Lucanda McMath, a daughter of Elisha MeMath 
a planter of Roupe's Valley, Ala., and six years lafer he removed to 
the Republic of Texas, locating in Nacogdoches.  He soon attained 
distinction as an able lawyer and several times represented his district 
in the con­gres of the Republic of Texas.  He was a prominent supporter 
of the annexation of Texas to the United States, was a member of the 
first constitutional convention and of the first State Senate.  In 1846 
he entered the Texan army against Mexico, and on his return froni the 
war resumed his seat in the State Senate.  In 1849 he removed to 
Cherokee county from which he volunteered in 1861 upon the outbreak of 
the war between the states.  He was commissioned brig­adier-general by 
President Jefferson Davis, but died at Cor­inth, Miss., in 1862 just 
before the Si ge.  His son, James S. Hogg, was the first native Texan 
to be elected governor of this state, as he was also one of its 
greatest.