Ethelbert Barksdale

Ethelbert Barksdale

Ethelbert Barksdale (* 4. January 1824 in Smyrna , Rutherford County , Tennessee , †  17 February 1893 in Yazoo City , Mississippi ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives and in the Konföderiertenkongress represented .

As a young man, Ethelbert Barksdale moved to Jackson , Mississippi, where he worked as a journalist. From 1854 to 1861 he was an editor for the state's official journal; He took on the same task again from 1876 to 1883.

Barksdale held his first political mandate in the Confederate States . From 1862 to 1865 he was a member of the House of Representatives in the first and second Confederate Congresses . After the end of the Civil War he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868, 1872 and 1880 , in which he had already participated in 1860. From 1877 to 1879 he was the Democrats in Mississippi.

In 1882 Ethelbert Barksdale was finally elected to the US House of Representatives. He represented his state from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1887 in Washington and then missed re-election. He then worked farming in Yazoo City, where he died in 1893.

His brother William Barksdale was also a member of the US House of Representatives from 1853 to 1861 and then joined the Confederate Army . He died in the Battle of Gettysburg .

Web links

• Ethelbert Barksdale in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ethelbert Barksdale in the database of Find a Grave (English)