History of Walton County Georgia United States of America

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Alfred Holt Colquitt, senator, was born in Walton county, Ga., April 20, 1824; son of Walter T. and Nancy (Lane) Colquitt. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1844 and the following year was admitted to the Georgia bar. In 1846-48 he served in the war with Mexico having the rank of staff major. He was a representative in the 33rd congress, 1853-55; a member of the Georgia legislature in 1859; a presidential elector-at-large in 1860; and a delegate to the state secession convention in 1861. He entered the Confederate army at the beginning of the civil war as captain, and was shortly afterward made colonel of the 6th Georgia infantry. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1862 and major-general in 1863. After the war he returned to his law practice and in 1876 was elected governor of Georgia for a term of four years. He was re-elected in 1880 after the revision of the state constitution, the new term being for two years, and on the expiration of his term in 1882 he was elected a U.S. senator. He was re-elected in 1888, and was succeeded in 1894 by A. O. Bacon of Macon, Ga. He was a trustee of the University of Georgia, 1878-89, president of the International Sunday school convention of 1878 and a prominent temperance advocate. He died in Washington, D. C., March 26, 1894.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Richard Bennet Hubbard, governor of Texas and diplomatist, was born in Walton county, Ga., Nov. 1, 1835; son of Richard B. and Serena (Carter) Hubbard; grandson of Richard B. Hubbard, of North Carolina, and a descendant on his mother's side of the Carters of Virginia. His father was a planter. He was graduated at Mercer university, Georgia, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854; attended law lectures at the University of Virginia, 1851; was graduated at Harvard, LL.B. in 1852, and began the practice of law in Tyler, Texas. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati, June 2, 1856, and President Buchanan appointed him U.S. district attorney for the western district of Texas. He resigned in 1858 and was elected a representative in the state legislature. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Charleston, April 23, 1860, and at Richmond, Va., June 21, 1860. He took sides with the South, and raised the 22d regiment of Texas infantry, which be commanded throughout the civil war. At the close of hostilities he cultivated his farm and when his political disabilities were removed he resumed the practise of law. He was a Presidential elector at large from Texas on the Greeley ticket in 1872; presided over the Democratic state convention of 1874 and was unanimously nominated for lieutenant-governor and elected by a majority of 50,000 votes. He was re-elected in 1876 by 102,000 majority, and when Governor Coke was transferred to the U.S. senate, Dec. 1, 1876, he became governor of Texas. His administration met the approval of the citizens as manifested by resolutions passed unanimously at the Democratic state convention of 1878. He was a delegate at large to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati, June 22, 1880, where he was the first delegate to second the nomination of Gen. W. S. Hancock for President. He was again a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago, July 8, 1884, where he was temporary chairman, and in the canvass that followed he accompanied the Vice-Presidential candidate in his tour of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. President Cleveland appointed him U.S. minister to Japan in 1883, where be negotiated the celebrated extradition treaty and also negotiated and signed the independent treaty of amity and commerce in 1889. On returning to the United States in 1890 be made his home in Tyler, Texas, and became interested in railroads in Texas, and was elected president of the Alexandria, Tyler and Northwestern Railroad company. He was married first to Eliza, daughter of Dr. C. B. Hudson, of Lafayette, Ala., and secondly to Janie R., daughter of the Hon. Willis Roberts, of Texas. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Mercer university in 1891. He is the author of an address delivered at the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876, on the "Resources of Texas," which was published in permanent form and translated in the languages of the continent of Europe and largely read, resulting in an influx of desirable settlers to the state; and he was a member of the Trans-Mississippi state congresses at Topeka, Omaha and New Orleans. He is the author of: The United States in the Far East, or Modern Japan and the Orient, an epitome of his observations in Japan. He died in Tyler, Texas, July 12, 1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Gustavus Alonzo Nunnally, educator, was born in Walton county, Ga., March 24, 1841; son of William Branch and Mary Hale (Talbot) Nunnally, and grandson of John Nunnally. His father and mother were born in Virginia and settled in Walton county, Va., in 1819. He was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1859, the youngest man to receive a diploma in the history of the university; was married, Nov. 23, 1859, to Mary, daughter of Ralph Briscoe, of Walton county, Ga.; was professor of mathematics in Hamilton Female college, 1859-61, and principal of the Johnston institute, 1861-68. He was quartermaster of the 9th Georgia militia, Col. P. H. Mell; entered the Baptist ministry in 1865, and preached in Walton and the surrounding counties, 1865-76, also engaging in farming, in editing the Southern Witness and as superintendent of schools for Walton county. He was pastor at Rome, Ga., 1875-84, superintended the church building department of the Southern Bapist church, 1884-85, pastor at Eufaula, Ala., 1885-87, and at Anniston, Ala., 1887-89. He was president of Mercer university, Macon, Ga., as successor to Dr. Archibald J. Battle, 1889-92, and during his term of service raised money for new buildings, which doubled the capacity of the university. He resumed ministerial duties as pastor of the Baptist church at Memphis, Tenn., in 1892, and in 1895 at La Grange, Ga., where he became president of the Southern Female college.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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