Henry Gray Turner

Henry Gray Turner

Henry Gray Turner (born March 20, 1839 in Henderson , North Carolina , †  June 9, 1904 in Raleigh , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1897 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Turner attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1857 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . In 1859 he moved to Brooks County , Georgia, where he worked as a teacher. During the civil war he rose from the army of the Confederate States from simple soldier to captain. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1865, he began to work in Quitman in his new profession. Politically, Turner was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1874 and 1876 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives . In 1876 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . He then belonged again to the state parliament from 1878 to 1879.

In the 1880 congressional elections , Turner was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded William Ephraim Smith on March 4, 1881 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1897 . Since 1893 he represented the then newly created eleventh district of his state there. From 1883 to 1887 Turner was chairman of the electoral committee; from 1893 to 1895 he headed the Ministry of Interior's expenditure control committee. For the elections of 1896 Turner declined to run again. As a result he worked again as a lawyer in Quitman. In 1903 he became a judge on the Supreme Court of Georgia . He died in Raleigh on June 9, 1904 and was buried in Quitman.

According to him, Turner County named in Georgia.

Web links

• Henry Gray Turner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry Gray Turner in the database of Find a Grave (English)