Edmund Strother Dargan

Confederate Congressman

Born: April 15, 1805, near Wadesboro, Montgomery County, North Carolina.

• Pursued preparatory studies at home.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar in Wadesboro, Alabama, 1829.
  
• Moved to Washington, Alabama, where he commenced the practice of law.
  
• For several years a Justice of the Peace in Washington, Alabama.
  
• Moved to Montgomery in 1833 and to Mobile in 1841.
  
• Judge of the Circuit Court, Mobile District, 1841-1842.
  
• Served in the Alabama State Senate, 1844.
  
• Mayor of Mobile, Alabama, 1844.
  
• Elected from Alabama as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth U. S. House of Representatives, March 4, 1845 - March 3, 1847.
  
• Declined to be a candidate for renomination, 1846.
  
• Associate Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court, 1847, and in 1849 became Chief Justice.
  
• Resigned in December 1852, and resumed the practice of law.
  
• Delegate to the Alabama State Convention, 1861, and voted for the Ordinance of Secession.
  
• Member of the First Confederate Congress, 1862-1864.
  
• Resumed the practice of law in Mobile, Alabama.

Died: November 22, 1879, Mobile, Alabama.
Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)