Malcolm Duncan Graham

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Malcolm Duncan Graham , also called Malcolm Daniel Graham , (born July 6, 1827 in Autauga County , Alabama , † October 8, 1878 in Montgomery , Alabama) was an American lawyer and politician for both the United States and the Confederate States active. He belonged to the Democratic Party . He also served as an officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

Malcolm Duncan Graham, son of Jeanette Smith and John Graham, was born in Autauga County in 1827. He attended Transylvania University in Lexington ( Kentucky ), where he Jura studied. After graduating, he returned to Alabama, where he worked in Wetumpka ( Elmore County opened a law firm). His youth were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years by the Mexican-American War . In 1853 he was named a clerk in the Alabama House of Representatives . He retired in 1854 after Texas and settled in Henderson ( Rusk County down).

In 1857 he was elected to the Texas Senate and in 1858 as Attorney General in the Sam Houston (1793-1863) administration. He held the latter post until 1860. He was a secessionist and served in the presidential election of 1860 as an elector for John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875). After Texas left the Union , he set up a regiment . But when he was elected to the first Confederate Congress on November 6, 1861 for the fifth constituency of Texas , he resigned from this. He took up his post on February 18, 1862. During his time in Congress he sat on the Committee on Ways and Means and later on the committee that established a Bureau of Foreign Supplies . His only separate application was an unsuccessful attempt to exempt all men on the Texas border from military service. He was an opponent of most tax policies and condemned the imposition of martial law in the Trans-Mississippi Department by the military commanders Earl Van Dorn (1820-1863), John Bankhead Magruder (1807-1871) and Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-1893). Otherwise he was a supporter of President Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) and the Confederate war effort. His re-election campaign began in the summer of 1863. In the following election he suffered a defeat against John Robert Baylor (1822-1894). In May 1864, Davis appointed him Judge Advocate in the Trans-Mississippi Department with the rank of Colonel . Graham was in his attempt to Mississippi River captured to cross, which on his return from Richmond ( Virginia happened) to Texas. He was in the prison camp at Johnson's Iceland in the Sandusky Bay , on the coast of Lake Erie three  Miles of Sandusky ( Erie County held) brought and until his exchange in February 1865 caught there.

After the end of the Civil War , he moved back to Alabama, where he resumed his practice as a lawyer, but continued to work in politics. In 1876 he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the conservative Democratic Party. He turned down a nomination for the governor of Alabama in 1877. He died in Montgomery in 1878 and was buried there in Oakwood Cemetery .

family

Graham was married twice. In 1851 he married Amelia Cunningham Ready (1831-1859), daughter of Olivia M. and Aaron Ready senior (1802-1852). The couple had at least three children, including two sons and a daughter named Eliza Hall (* 1857). After the death of his first wife, he married Sarah Cornelia Bethea (1835–1905), daughter of Eugenia Volanto (1814–1898) and Tristam Benjamin Bethea (1810–1879). The couple had at least one daughter: Effie Graham (1869–1938).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , pp. 33f
  2. ^ Eicher, John H .: Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780804780353 , p. 73
  3. ^ Depot of Prisoners of War on Johnson's Island, Ohio
  4. ↑ Amelia Cunningham Ready Graham in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ Eliza Hall Graham in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  6. ^ Sarah Cornelia Bethea Graham in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  7. ^ Effie Graham Crittenden in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 10, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Graham, Malcolm Duncan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graham, Malcolm Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and Confederate politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Autauga County , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1878
Place of death Montgomery , Alabama