Barksdale, Ethelbert

Life Span
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    Full name
    Ethelbert Barksdale
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Family
    William Barksdale (father), Nancy Hervey Lester Barksdale (mother), William Barksdale (brother)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Farmer or Planter
    Journalist
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Confederate government (1861-65)
    US House of Representatives

    Ethelbert Barksdale (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

    Reference
    BARKSDALE, Ethelbert, (brother of William Barksdale), a Representative from Mississippi; born in Smyrna, Rutherford County, Tenn., January 4, 1824; moved to Jackson, Hinds County, Miss.; adopted journalism as a profession; edited the official journal of the State 1854-1861 and 1876-1883; member of the Confederate Congress 1861-1865; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1860, 1868, 1872, and 1880; chairman of the Democratic State executive committee 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Yazoo County; died in Yazoo City, Miss., February 17, 1893; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.
    “Barksdale, Ethelbert,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000146.
    How to Cite This Page: "Barksdale, Ethelbert," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5035.