George Washington Bridges

George Washington Bridges (born October 9, 1825 in Charleston , Bradley County , Tennessee , †  March 16, 1873 in Athens , Tennessee) was an American politician . In 1863 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Bridges attended East Tennessee University in Knoxville . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1848, he began to work in his new profession in Athens. He was also active in agriculture and politics. Between 1849 and 1860 Bridges was Attorney General of the State of Tennessee. In the run-up to the civil war , he committed himself to the Union.

In the 1860 congressional elections , he was elected a Unionist to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he should have started his new mandate on March 4, 1861. On the way to the federal capital, he was intercepted and arrested by troops of the Confederation . He was returned to Tennessee and imprisoned for over a year. Then he managed to escape to the north. On February 25, 1863, he was still able to take his seat in Congress for a little over a week until the end of the current legislative period on March 3 of this year.

Between August 1863 and December 1864 he served as an officer in the Union Army . He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. George Bridges was a judge in the Tennessee Fourth District Judge in 1866 and 1867. He died in Athens on March 16, 1873.

Web links

• George Washington Bridges in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Washington Bridges in the database of Find a Grave (English)