Edward Isaac Golladay

Edward Isaac Golladay (born September 9, 1830 in Lebanon , Tennessee , †  July 11, 1897 in Columbia , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1871 and 1873 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Golladay was the younger brother of Jacob Golladay (1819-1887), who sat between 1867 and 1870 for the state of Kentucky in Congress . He attended the public schools of his home country and then studied literature at Cumberland University until 1848 . After a subsequent law degree at this university and his admission as a lawyer in 1849, he began to work in Lebanon in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. He was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee in 1857 and 1858 . In the presidential election of 1860 he was elector for John Bell , the candidate for the Constitutional Union Party . During the Civil War , Golladay was a colonel in the Confederate Army .

In the congressional elections of 1870 Golladay was elected as the Democratic Party candidate in the fifth constituency of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William Farrand Prosser on March 4, 1871 . Since he in the elections of 1872 the Republicans Horace Harrison defeated, he could only one term in until March 3, 1873 Congress completed. After leaving the US House of Representatives, Golladay practiced as a lawyer in Lebanon and Nashville . He died on July 11, 1897 while visiting his daughter in South Carolina. He was then buried in Lebanon.

Web links

• Edward Isaac Golladay in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward Isaac Golladay in the database of Find a Grave (English)