Samuel Jameson Gholson

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Samuel Jameson Gholson (19 May 1808 - 16 October 1883) was born near Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky. He moved with his father to Franklin County, Alabama in 1817. He attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar at Russellville in 1829. He moved to Athens, Monroe County, Mississippi, and commenced the practice of law; member of the State house of representatives in 1835, 1836, and 1839; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Dickson and served from December 1, 1836, to March 3, 1837; presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from July 18, 1837, until February 5, 1838, when the seat was declared vacant; appointed United States district judge in 1839 and served until 1861, when Mississippi seceded from the Union; member of the State secession convention in 1861. During the War Between the States, he served in the Confederate Army as a private, captain, colonel, brigadier general, and major general of State troops; became brigadier general of the Confederate States Army in June 1863, and was placed in command of a brigade of Cavalry; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1865, 1866, and 1878; continued the practice of law in Aberdeen, Mississippi until his death. He was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Aberdeen.