Borland, Solon

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    Full name
    Solon Borland
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
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    Exact
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Pierce Administration (1853-57)
    Diplomat
    US Senate
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Confederate Army

    Solon Borland (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    BORLAND, Solon, a Senator from Arkansas; born near Suffolk, Nansemond County, Va., September 21, 1808; attended preparatory schools in North Carolina; studied and afterwards practiced medicine; settled in Little Rock, Ark.; served throughout the Mexican War as a major in the Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry; was appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ambrose H. Sevier and served from March 30, 1848, to April 11, 1853, when his resignation became effective; chairman, Committee on Printing (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-third Congress); served as United States Minister to Nicaragua and to the other Central American Republics 1853-1854; declined an appointment as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico; returned to Arkansas and resumed the practice of medicine in Little Rock until 1861; during the Civil War raised a brigade of troops for the Confederate Army; later was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate Army; died near Houston, Tex., on January 1, 1864; interment in City Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
    "Borland, Solon," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000642.
    How to Cite This Page: "Borland, Solon," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12220.