Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
U. S. House of Representatives, Alabama, 1857-1861
Confederate Congressman, 1861
Lieutenant Colonel, CSA, 1862-1865
Born: June 5, 1825, near Double Branches, Lincoln County, Georgia.
Died: February 12, 1903, Victoria, near Asheville, North Carolina.
- Moved with his father to Talladega County, Alabama, 1838.
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, graduate, 1843.
- Studied law at Harvard University.
- Admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Talladega County, Alabama, 1845.
- Served in the war with Mexico as a private in the Texas Rangers, 1846, but resigned because of ill health.
- Alabama State House of Representatives, 1847, 1853, and 1855.
- Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket of Buchanan and Breckinridge, 1856.
- Elected from Alabama as a State Rights Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth U. S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1857 - January 21, 1861, when he withdrew.
- Deputy from Alabama to the Provisional Confederate Congress and a Representative in the First Confederate Congress.
- During the Civil War served as Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry in the Confederate Army.
- After the war became a Baptist preacher.
- President of Howard College, Alabama, 1865.
- Professor in Richmond College, Virginia, 1868-1881.
- Agent of the Peabody and States Funds from 1881 until his death.
- Appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain on October 7, 1885, and served until August 6, 1888, when he resigned.
- Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission to Spain (the coming of age of the King) February 3, 1902.
Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
(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.)