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Senate Years of Service: 1877-1885 Party: Democrat
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GARLAND, Augustus Hill, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Tipton County, Tenn., June 11,
1832; moved with his parents to Hempstead County, Ark., in 1833; attended St.
Marys College and graduated from St. Josephs College in Kentucky in 1849;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Washington,
Ark.; moved to Little Rock in 1856; Union delegate to the State convention that
passed the ordinance of secession in 1861; member of the provisional congress
that met in Montgomery, Ala., in May 1861 and subsequently of the Confederate
Congress and served in both houses; elected to the United States Senate for the
term beginning March 4, 1867, but was not permitted to take his seat, as
Arkansas had not been readmitted to representation; Governor of Arkansas
1874-1876; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1876; reelected
in 1883, and served from March 4, 1877, to March 6, 1885, when he resigned to
accept a Cabinet post; chairman, Committee on Territories (Forty-sixth
Congress); appointed Attorney General by President Grover Cleveland, and served
1885-1889; resumed the practice of law in Little Rock; died in Washington,
D.C., January 26, 1899; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Garland, A.H.
Experience in the Supreme Court of the United States, with Some
Reflections and Suggestions as to that Tribunal. Littleton, CO: Fred
B. Rothman, 1983; Schlup, Leonard. Augustus Hill Garland: Gilded Age
Democrat. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 40 (Winter 1981):
338-46.
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