Tar Heels Who Left Ho
e
This is the second of a series of articles, prepared by Mr. Murphy and hav¬
ing to do with North Carolinians who left their native state and made good
elsewhere. The third article will appear next week.
Bi/ WALTER (‘•Pole,,> MURPHY
KENTUCKY
DIXON, ARCHIBALD, a Senator
from Kentucky; educated at home;
served in the U. S. Senate from
1S52 to 1855.
HENDRICK, JOHN KERR, a Rep¬
resentative from Kentucky; attend¬
ed Bethel College; served in Con¬
gress from 1S95 to 1S97.
HOPKINS, NATHAN THOMAS,
a Representative from Kentucky;
common school education; served in
the U. S. Congress from I'eb. to
March 1897.
JONES, THOMAS LURENS, a
Representative from Kentucky;
graduated from Princeton and Har¬
vard colleges; served in the U. S.
House of Representatives 1867 to
1871, again from 1S75 to 1877.
GAITHER, NATHAN, a Repre¬
sentative from Kentucky; gradu¬
ated from Jefferson Medical Col¬
lege; served in the U. S. House of
Representatives from 1829 to 1833.
McLEAN, ALNEY, a Representative
from Kentucky; common schools;
served in the U. S. House of Repre¬
sentatives from 1S15 to 1817.
BINGHAM, ROBERT WORTH, an
Ambassador from the U. S. to Eng¬
land from 1933 until his death ; ed¬
ucated at the Universities of N. C.
and Virginia.
LOUISIANA
MANNING, THOMAS COURT-
LAND, an Ambassador from the
U. S. to Mexico 18S6 to 1887 ; chief
justice of the Supreme Court of
Louisiana; Brigadier General
С.Л.Л.
BRAGG, BRAXTON, Major Gen¬
eral in the Confederate army; grad¬
uated at West Point, 1S37.'
POLK, LEONIDAS, a Lieutenant
General in the Confederate Array;
educated at the University of N. C.
and the U. S. Military Academy;
bishop of Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Indian Territory,
killed at Pine Mountain, Georgia
1864.
JONES, ROLAND, a Representa¬
tive from Louisiana, graduated
from the Cambridge, Mass.. School
of Law; served in the U. S. Con¬
gress from 1853 to 1855.
MISSOURI
BENTON, THOMAS HART, a Sen¬
ator and a Representative from
Missouri; educated at the Univer¬
sity of N. C. and William and
Mary; upon the admission of Mis¬
souri as a state was sent to the
U. S. Senate therefrom and served
from 1821 to 1S51 ; served in the
House of Representatives from
1853 to 1855.
BARTON, DAVID, a Senator from
Missouri; President of the State
Convention which formed Missou¬
ri’s Constitution, upon the admis¬
sion of Missouri to the Union was
sent to the United States Senate
and served from 1821-1831.
DARBY, JOHN FLETCHER, a
Representative from Missouri; at¬
tended the public schools ; served iu
the U. S. House of Representatives
from 1851 to 1853.
HAMLIN, COURTNEY WALK¬
ER, a Representative from Mis¬
souri; educated at public schools;
served in the U. S. House of Rep¬
resentatives from 1903 to 1905,
again from 1907 to 1919.
SIMS, LEONARD H., a Represent¬
ative from Missouri ; education lim¬
ited; served in the U. S. House of
Representatives from 1845 to 1847.
MISSISSIPPI
McRAE, JOHN JONES, a Senator
and Representative from Missis¬
sippi; graduated from Miami Uni¬
versity; succeeded Jefferson Davis
in the U. S. Senate and served from
1851 to 1852; Governor of Missis¬
sippi from 1854 to 1858; served in
the U. S. House of Representatives
from 1858 to 1861; served in the
Confederate Congress 1862 to 1864.
SPEIGHT, JESSE, a Representative
from N. C. and a Senator from
Mississippi; limited education;
served in the U. S. House of Rep¬
resentatives from 1829 to 1837;
served in the U. S. Senate from
Mississippi from 1845 to 1847.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS HILL, a
Senator from Mississippi; educated
by Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
at Zion-Pnrnnssus Academy; upon
the admission into the Union was
elected from Mississippi to the
U. S. Senate and served from
1817 to 1829.
REVELS, HIRAM RHODES, a
Senator from Mississippi; graduat¬
ed from Knox College; a member of
the Negro ruee; served in the U. S.
Army as a Chaplain; sent to the
1 . S. Senate from Mississippi dur¬
ing “reconstruction” and served
from 1S70 to 1871.
THOMPSON, JACOB, a Represent¬
ative from Mississippi; graduated
from the University of N. C.;
served in the U. S. House of Rep¬
resentatives and served from 1839
to 1851 ; appointed as Secretary of
the Interior by President Buchanan
and served from 1857 to 1861; In¬
spector General Confederate Army ;
Governor of Mississippi 1862 to
1S64.
ВЕЕМ
AN, JOSEPH HENRY, a
Representative from Mississippi ;
received an academic education;
served in the U. S. House of Rep¬
resentatives from 1891 to 1893.
HARRIS, GEORGE EM RICK, a
Representative from Mississippi;
attended common schools; served
in the U. S. House of Representa¬
tives from 1870 to 1873.
WILCOX, JOHN A., a Representa¬
tive from Mississippi; common
schools education; served in the
U. S. House of Representatives
from 1S51 to 1853; member of the
Confederate Congress.
WORD, THOMAS J., a Representa¬
tive from Mississippi; served in the
U. S. House of Representatives
from 1838 to 1839.
MANNING, VAN HARTROG, a
Representative from Mississippi;
academic education and the Uni¬
versity of Nashville, Tenn.; served
in the U. S. Congress as a Repre¬
sentative from 1877 to 1883.
MONTANA
DIXON, JOSEPH MOORE, a Rep¬
resentative and Senator from Mon¬
tana; graduated from Guilford