Haralson, Jeremiah

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    Full name
    Jeremiah Haralson
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
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    Death Date Certainty
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    Black
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    Occupation
    Politician
    Farmer or Planter
    Clergy
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Miner
    Relation to Slavery
    Slave or Former Slave
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Republican
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature

    Jeremiah Haralson (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    HARALSON, Jeremiah, a Representative from Alabama; born on a plantation near Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga., April 1, 1846; raised as a slave; self-educated; moved to Alabama and engaged in agricultural pursuits; became a minister; member of the State house of representatives in 1870; served in the State senate in 1872; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); appointed to a Federal position in the United States customhouse in Baltimore, Md.; later employed as a clerk in the Interior Department; appointed August 12, 1882, to the Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C., and resigned August 21, 1884; moved to Louisiana, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and thence to Arkansas in 1904; served as pension agent for a short time; returned to Alabama and settled in Selma in 1912; moved to Texas and later to Oklahoma and Colorado and engaged in coal mining in the latter State; killed by wild beasts near Denver, Colo., about 1916.
    "Haralson, Jeremiah," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000179.
    How to Cite This Page: "Haralson, Jeremiah," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/8954.