Guy M. Bryan

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Guy M. Bryan

Guy Morrison Bryan (born January 12, 1821 in Herculaneum , Jefferson County , Missouri , †  June 4, 1901 in Austin , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1859 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Guy Bryan came to Texas with his parents in 1831, which was then still a province of Mexico . The family settled in San Felipe , where he attended private schools. Despite his youth, he took part in the Texas War of Independence in 1836 . He then continued his education until 1842 with a study at Kenyon College in Gambier ( Ohio ). He also studied law without ever working as a lawyer. Instead he was a planter in his Texan homeland. Bryan served in a volunteer unit from Texas during the Mexican-American War . He then embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1847 and 1853 Bryan was a member of the Texas House of Representatives ; from 1853 to 1857 he was a member of the State Senate . In June 1856 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where James Buchanan was nominated as a presidential candidate. Four years later he headed the Texan delegation to the Democratic Federal Party Congress in Baltimore . In the congressional elections of 1856 Bryan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Peter Hansborough Bell on March 4, 1857 . Since he refused to run again in 1858, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1859 . This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war .

During the Civil War he served as a staff officer with the rank of major in the Confederation Army . To get around the Union blockade in the Gulf of Mexico , he founded a cotton trading station in Houston . Bryan moved to Galveston in 1872 . In the years 1873, 1879 and from 1887 to 1891 he was again a member of the House of Representatives from Texas, as its president he served in 1873. He moved to Quintana in 1890 and to Austin in 1898. From 1892 Guy Bryan was President of the Texas Veterans Association. He died in Austin on June 4, 1901.

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SURNAME Bryan, Guy M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bryan, Guy Morrison (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Herculaneum , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1901
Place of death Austin , Texas