Borland, Solon, 1808-1864

LC control no.	n 90628480
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Borland, Solon, 1808-1864 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1808-09-21
Death date	1864-01-01
Affiliation	United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.)
Found in	nuc89-33467: His Speech of Hon. Solon Borland, of Arkansas ... [MI] 1852 (hdg. on LCP rept.: Borland, Solon, 1808-1864) LCCN 23-3319: His Speech of Hon. Solon Borland ... 1852 (hdg.: Borland, Solon, 1808-1864) Dictionary of North Carolina biography, c1979-c1996 (Borland, Solon; b. Aug. 11, 1811, Nansemond County, Va., d. Jan. 31, 1864; U.S. senator, diplomat, attorney, physician, Confederate general, and journalist) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed July 27, 2022 (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.)
Associated language	eng