| LC control no. | no2013134587 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jemison, Robert, Jr., 1802-1871 |
| Birth date | 18020917 |
| Death date | 18711017 |
| Place of birth | Lincoln County (Ga.) |
| Place of death | Tuscaloosa (Ala.) |
| Field of activity | Law Politics, Practical Business Agriculture |
| Affiliation | University of Georgia Alabama. General Assembly. House of Representatives Alabama. General Assembly. Senate Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate Whig Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Plantation owners Executives Businessmen |
| Found in | The University of Alabama's Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, viewed November 22, 2013 page 3 (He was born September 17, 1802, in Lincoln County, Georgia, near Augusta, and died October 17, 1871 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama; son of William and Sarah (Mims) Jemison; attended the University of Georgia; studied law; served in the Alabama state legislature from 1840-1850 and in the state senate from 1851-1863; In 1863, he was elected to the Confederate States Senate...and served until the end of the war; married Priscilla Cherokee Taylor and had one child, Cherokee Mims, who married Andrew Coleman Hargrove of Tuscaloosa) Biographical register of the Confederate Congress, 1975, accessed via Google books, November 22, 2013 page 129 (entered planting...entered politics as a whig...developed mills, stagecoach lines, and manufactories...president of the Northeast and Southwest Railroad) |
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