Hilliard, Henry Washington

Life Span
to
Full name
Henry Washington Hilliard
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Education
University of South Carolina
Occupation
Politician
Military
Diplomat
Attorney or Judge
Educator
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
Slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Methodist
Political Parties
Whig
Republican
Other
Other Political Party
National American
Government
Harrison/Tyler Administration (1841-45)
Diplomat
US House of Representatives
State legislature
Military
Confederate Army

Henry Washington Hilliard (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
HILLIARD, Henry Washington, a Representative from Alabama; born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., on August 4, 1808; was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1826; studied law; moved to Athens, Ga., where he was admitted to the bar in 1829; professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 1831 to 1834, when he resigned to practice law in Montgomery, Ala.; member of the State house of representatives 1836-1838; member of the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1839; Whig presidential elector in 1840; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840; Chargé d’Affaires to Belgium from May 12, 1842, to August 15, 1844; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; presidential elector on the National American ticket in 1856; during the Civil War served as brigadier general in the Confederate Army; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1865 and resumed the practice of his profession; appointed by Jefferson Davis Confederate commissioner to Tennessee; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Augusta, Ga., moving later to Atlanta; Minister to Brazil 1877-1881; died in Atlanta, Ga., December 17, 1892; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Ala.
"Hilliard, Henry Washington," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000622.
Chicago Style Entry Link
Durham, David I. A Southern Moderate in Radical Times: Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Hilliard, Henry Washington," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5897.