Julian Hartridge

Julian Hartridge (born September 9, 1829 in Savannah , Georgia , †  January 8, 1879 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Julian Hartridge attended the Chatham Academy , the Montpelier Institute and then until 1848 Brown University in Providence ( Rhode Island ). After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission as a lawyer in 1851, he began to work in his native Savannah in his new profession. Between 1854 and 1858 he was a district attorney in the eastern judicial district of Georgia.

Politically, Hartridge was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1858 and 1859 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Charleston . At the beginning of the Civil War he served for a year as a lieutenant in an artillery unit in the army of the Confederacy . Between 1862 and 1865 he was a deputy in the Congress of the Confederate States in Richmond ( Virginia ). In the years 1872 and 1876 he again took part in the respective federal party conferences of the Democrats.

In the 1874 congressional election , Julian Hartridge was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Andrew Sloan on March 4, 1875 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death on January 8, 1879 . After a by-election, his seat fell to William Bennett Fleming , who then ended the legislative period between February 10 and March 3, 1879. Julian Hartridge was buried in his hometown of Savannah.

Web links

• Julian Hartridge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Julian Hartridge in the database of Find a Grave (English)