George Henry Craig

George Henry Craig (born December 25, 1845 in Cahaba , Alabama , †  January 26, 1923 in Selma , Alabama) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

George Henry Craig attended the Cahaba Academy . He joined the Confederate Army in Mobile in 1862 , where he held the rank of private in Colonel Byrd's Regiment of the Alabama Volunteers . Craig attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa as a cadet in 1863 . He was promoted to first lieutenant of the infantry . Craig resumed his service in the same year and continued this until the end of the Civil War . Then he went back to the University of Alabama to finish his studies. He studied law , was admitted to the bar in December 1867 and then began practicing in Selma. The following year he was elected solicitor for Dallas County . He was then named sheriff of Dallas County in March 1869 and elected a judge in the local criminal court in March 1870. To fill a vacancy in the Alabama First Judicial District, Governor David Peter Lewis appointed him a judge there in July 1874. On November 4, 1874, he was officially elected to this position and held it until 1880. Then he resumed his work as a lawyer in Selma.

Craig successfully contested the election of Charles M. Shelley to the 48th US Congress and served there from January 9, 1885 to March 3, 1885. In his candidacy for the 49th US Congress in 1884 , however, he suffered a defeat. Craig was appointed Attorney General for the Central and Northern District of Alabama by US President Chester A. Arthur to succeed William Hugh Smith . Then in 1894 US President Grover Cleveland appointed him to the Board of Visitors of the Military Academy at West Point . He later resumed his work as a lawyer in Selma, where he also died in 1923. He was buried in Live Oak Cemetery .

Web links

• George Henry Craig in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Henry Craig in the database of Find a Grave (English)