Bratton, John

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    Full name
    John Bratton
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Education
    University of South Carolina
    Other
    Other Education
    South Carolina Medical College, Charleston, SC
    Occupation
    Politician
    Farmer or Planter
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Episcopalian
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Military
    Confederate Army

    John Bratton (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    BRATTON, John, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March 7, 1831; attended the Academy of Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro; was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1850 and from South Carolina Medical College at Charleston in 1853; engaged in the practice of medicine in Winnsboro from 1853 to 1861; also engaged as a planter; volunteered in the Confederate Army as a private and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier general; member of the State constitutional convention in 1865; served in the State senate in 1866; chairman of the South Carolina delegation in the Democratic National Convention in 1876; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; elected comptroller general of South Carolina by the legislature, to fill a vacancy, in 1881; elected to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Evins and served from December 8, 1884, to March 3, 1885; was not a candidate for renomination in 1884; retired from active politics and again engaged in planting at “Farmington,” near Winnsboro; died in Winnsboro, S.C., January 12, 1898; interment in the Episcopal Cemetery.
    "Bratton, John," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000772.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Austin, J. Luke, ed. General John Bratton: Sumter to Appomattox, in Letters to His Wife. Sewanee, TN: Proctor’s Hall Press, 2003. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Bratton, John," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5185.