Hines Holt

Hines Holt, portrayed by CR Parker (around 1838)

Hines Holt (born April 27, 1805 in Milledgeville , Baldwin County , Georgia , †  November 4, 1865 in Milledgeville) was an American politician who represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

After finishing school, Holt attended Franklin College at the University of Georgia in Athens , where he graduated in 1824 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then studied law , was admitted to the bar, and began practicing in Columbus .

Holt first became politically active in 1832 when he represented Georgia in the US presidential election in Electoral College and gave his vote to incumbent Andrew Jackson . In 1841 he was initially a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia , where he resigned his mandate quickly when he was elected to succeed the resigned Walter T. Colquitt in the US House of Representatives. He held his mandate there as Whig only from February 1 to March 3, 1841, then resigned from Congress and worked again as a lawyer.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War , he became politically active again in 1859 as State treasurer of Georgia. That same year he was elected to the Georgia Senate, which he served for two terms. After the Georgian secession, Holt was a member of the House of Representatives in the first Confederate Congress from 1862 . He resigned his mandate there on March 1, 1863. After the war ended, he was a delegate to the Georgia Constitutional Convention in his hometown of Milledgeville in November 1865 when he died unexpectedly. He was buried in Columbus.

Web links

• Hines Holt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hines Holt in the database of Find a Grave (English)