CURRY, Jabez Lamar Monroe, a
Representative from Alabama; born near Double Branches, Lincoln County, Ga.,
June 5, 1825; moved with his father to Talladega County, Ala., in 1838; was
graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1843; studied law at
Harvard University; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Talladega
County in 1845; served in the war with Mexico as a private in the Texas Rangers
in 1846, but resigned because of ill health; member of the State house of
representatives in 1847, 1853, and 1855; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, to
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; chosen president of Howard
College, Alabama, in 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; died in Victoria, near Asheville, N.C., February 12, 1903;
interment in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.. - -Biographical
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