David Clopton

David Clopton

David Clopton (born September 29, 1820 in Milledgeville , Putnam County , Georgia , †  February 5, 1892 in Montgomery , Alabama ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Alabama in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

After attending public school and a private school in Edenton David Clopton made in 1840 graduated from the Randolph-Macon College in Ashland ( Virginia ). He studied law , was inducted into the bar in 1841, and began practicing in Milledgeville. In 1844 he moved to Tuskegee , Alabama.

Shortly before the beginning of the Civil War , the Democrat Clopton was elected to the US House of Representatives, to which he belonged from March 4, 1859 until his resignation on January 21, 1861. During the war he served as a private in an infantry regiment of the Confederate Army . From 1862 to 1864 he was a member of the First and Second Confederate Congresses .

He only became politically active after the war in 1878 as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives . In 1884 he was appointed a judge at the Alabama Supreme Court , which he remained until his death.

Web links

• David Clopton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Clopton in the database of Find a Grave (English)