Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)

For other people named Joseph Abbott, see Joseph Abbott (disambiguation).
Joseph Abbott
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1887  March 3, 1897
Preceded by Olin Wellborn
Succeeded by Robert E. Burke
Member of the Texas House of Representatives
In office
1870-1871
Personal details
Born (1840-01-15)January 15, 1840
Morgan County, Alabama
Died February 11, 1908(1908-02-11) (aged 68)
Hillsboro, Texas
Occupation lawyer, judge, politician

Military career

Allegiance  Confederate States of America
Service/branch  Confederate States Army
Rank First Lieutenant
Unit 12th Regiment, Texas Cavalry
Battles/wars American Civil War

Joseph "Jo" Abbott (January 15, 1840 – February 11, 1908) was a member of the Confederate States Army and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas.

Biography

Abbott was born January 15, 1840 in Morgan County, Alabama near Decatur and attended the public schools. He moved with his parents to Freestone County, Texas, in 1853.

During the American Civil War, he served as a first lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment of the Texas Cavalry.[1] He later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He began his legal practice in Springfield, Limestone County, Texas. He later moved to Hillsboro, Texas where he continued his legal career.

He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives in 1870 and 1871.[2] He was appointed a district judge in the Twenty-Eighth judicial district by Governor Oran M. Roberts. In 1880, he was elected for a full four-year term for that position. In 1886, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives, and served in that capacity through the end of Fifty-Fourth Congress in 1897.[3] Upon leaving Congress, he resumed his legal career in Hillsboro, Texas, where he died on February 11, 1908.[4]

References

  1. Who Was Who in American History - the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1975. p. 1. ISBN 0837932017.
  2. Who Was Who in American History - the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1975. p. 1. ISBN 0837932017.
  3. Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson, eds. (1908), Who's who in America, 5, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated, p. 5.
  4. Who Was Who in American History - the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1975. p. 1. ISBN 0837932017.
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Olin Wellborn
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 6th congressional district

1887–1897
Succeeded by
Robert E. Burke


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