Edmund Strother Dargan

Edmund Strother Dargan (born April 15, 1805 in Wadesboro , Montgomery County , North Carolina , †  November 22, 1879 in Mobile , Alabama ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Alabama in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

Edmund Dargan was home schooled as a boy, studied law and was inducted into the Wadesboro Bar in 1829. He later moved to Washington , Alabama, where he worked as a lawyer and served as a justice of the peace for several years. He then lived first in Montgomery and finally from 1841 in Mobile. There he became a judge at the district court. In 1844 he was State Senator ; in the same year he took over the mayor's office in Mobile.

On March 4, 1845, Dargan moved as a Democrat to the US House of Representatives in Washington . He did not apply for re-election and left after one term on March 3, 1847. He then became an associate judge at the Alabama Supreme Court , presiding over it in 1849. He resigned in 1852 and returned to work as a lawyer.

In 1861 Dargan took part as a delegate to the Alabama Secession Convention; he voted for the state to be split off from the Union. During the Civil War he was a member of the House of Representatives in the first Confederate Congress . After the war he became a lawyer again in Mobile, where he died in 1879.

Web links

• Edmund Strother Dargan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edmund Strother Dargan in the database of Find a Grave (English)