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Senate Years of Service: 1892-1901 Party: Democrat
CAFFERY, Donelson, (grandfather of Patrick Thomson Caffery),
a Senator from Louisiana; born near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, La.,
September 10, 1835; attended private schools in Franklin, St. Marys College,
Baltimore, Md., and Louisiana University at New Orleans; studied law; during
the Civil War served as a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment;
served as clerk of court in 1866; admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced the
practice of law in Franklin, La.; sugar planter; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1879; member, State senate 1892-1893; appointed
and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1894 to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Randall Lee Gibson and served from
December 31, 1892, to March 3, 1901; was not a candidate for reelection in
1900; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Fifty-third Congress), Committee
on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Fifty-sixth Congress);
resumed the practice of law; died in New Orleans, La., on December 30, 1906;
interment in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, La.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography.
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