John H. Caldwell

Quill platform ID: p15670.

(April 4, 1826 — September 4, 1902) Caldwell was a lawyer and teacher in Jacksonville Alabama. John Caldwell was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He taught school in Limestone County, Alabama (1844-1848), and was a principle of two academies from 1848-1857. During the Civil War, Caldwell enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as solicitor for the tenth judicial circuit in 1963. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Congress from March 4, 1872 to March 3, 1877. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000035]

Member of Alabama Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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