Henry Washington Hilliard
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Henry Washington Hilliard (August 4, 1808 - December 17, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Hilliard was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1826. He studied law. He moved to Athens, Georgia, where he was admitted to the bar in 1829. Professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 1831 to 1834, when he resigned to practice law in Montgomery, Alabama. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1836-1838. He served as member of the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1839. Whig presidential elector in 1840. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840. Chargé. D'Affaires to Belgium from May 12, 1842, to August 15, 1844.
Hilliard was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1850. He served as presidential elector on the National American ticket in 1856. During the Civil War served as brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1865 and resumed the practice of his profession. He was appointed by Jefferson Davis Confederate commissioner to Tennessee. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Augusta, Georgia, moving later to Atlanta. Minister to Brazil 1877-1881. He died in Atlanta, Georgia, December 17, 1892. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
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- Henry Washington Hilliard at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- This article incorporates facts obtained from The Political Graveyard.
- Durham, David R. (2008). A Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3328-6
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| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by James Edwin Belser |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851 |
Succeeded by James Abercrombie |
| Diplomatic posts | ||
| Preceded by James R. Partridge |
United States Minister to Brazil 23 October 1877–15 June 1881 |
Succeeded by Thomas A. Osborn |
