George Eliphaz Spencer Colonel, United States Army United States Senator |
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Senator from Alabama; born in Champion, Jefferson County, New York, November
1, 1836; pursued classical studies; attended Montreal College, Canada;
moved to Iowa; secretary of the State Senate in 1856; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced; during the Civil War entered
the Union Army as a captain, and when he resigned in 1865 was brevetted
brigadier general for gallantry on the field; resumed the practice of law
in Decatur, Alabama; appointed register in bankruptcy for the fourth district
of Alabama 1867; upon the readmission of Alabama to representation in 1868
was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1872,
and served from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1879; chairman, Committee on
the District of Columbia (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Military
Affairs (Forty-fifth Congress); retired to his ranch in Nevada; died in
Washington, D.C., February 19, 1893; interment in Arlington National Cemetery,
Virginia (Section 1, Grave 112-D).
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