Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry

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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (born June 5, 1825 in Lincoln County , Georgia , † February 12, 1903 near Asheville , North Carolina ) was an American lawyer, soldier, member of the House of Representatives , college professor and administrative director, diplomat, and officer in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War .

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry

Life

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry grew up in Alabama and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1843 , where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society . While studying at Harvard Law School , Curry was inspired by Horace Mann's lectures to advocate free, continuous education. After graduating, he served in the Army in the Mexican-American War .

After the war, he was elected as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives in 1847 . It was also confirmed two more times, in 1853 and 1855. The Democrat Curry was then elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he remained between 1857 and 1861. After the outbreak of the civil war, he was a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress and a member of the First Confederate Congress . As a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army, he was a staff adviser to Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Joseph Wheeler .

After the war he learned the ministry and became a preacher, but the focus of his work was free education in the south. To do this, he traveled and gave lectures in support of state regular schools, sufficient rural schools and a system of graded public schools. He was also President of Howard College in Alabama and Professor at Richmond College in Virginia . From 1881 until his death he was an active force for the Peabody and Slater Fund to support schools in the South and was instrumental in founding the Southern Education Board . Curry was US envoy to Spain from 1885 to 1888 , and in 1902 to the coming of age King Alfonso XIII. of Spain . His publications include works on education, American government, and Spanish history.

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry died on February 12, 1903. He was buried in Richmond.

Curry. Sculpture by Dante Sodini

Others

About 3 miles northeast of Talladega , on Alabama State Route 21, is the historic JLM Curry House (also known as Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry House ). The house was the residence of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry. The building was listed on October 15, 1966 on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic Monument with the number 66000154. It is also inscribed on the National Historic Landmark .

Honors

Works

  • Constitutional Government in Spain (1889)
  • William Ewart Gladstone (1891)
  • The Southern States of the American Union (1894)
  • Difficulties, Complications, and Limitations Connected with the Education of the Negro (1895)
  • Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States, with some Personal Reminiscences (1901)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NRIS
  2. ↑ Curry, JLM, Home . ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. National Historic Landmarks Program @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tps.cr.nps.gov
  3. ↑ Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry . In: Encyclopedia of Alabama
personal data
SURNAME Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1903
Place of death near Asheville , North Carolina