Hugh Buchanan

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Hugh Buchanan (born September 15, 1823 in Argyllshire , Scotland , †  June 11, 1890 in Newnan , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1885 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his youth, Hugh Buchanan came to the United States from Scotland, where he attended Vermont public schools . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1845, he began to work in his new profession in Newnan in 1846. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He served in the Georgia Senate in 1855 and 1857 . In 1856 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , on which the unrelated James Buchanan was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In the presidential election of 1860 he was the elector for John C. Breckinridge . During the Civil War he served as a soldier in the army of the Confederacy .

Immediately after the war, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, but not admitted there because the state of Georgia had not yet been re-accepted into the Union at that time. Buchanan was a district judge in Coweta County between 1872 and 1880 . In 1868 he was again a delegate at the federal party conference of the Democrats; in 1877 he was a member of an assembly to revise the Georgia state constitution.

In the congressional election of 1880 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Henry Persons on March 4, 1881 . After re-election in 1882, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1885 . In 1884, Buchanan declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics. He died in Newnan on June 11, 1890.

Web links

  • Hugh Buchanan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)