Everything about James Henderson Blount totally explained
James Henderson Blount (
September 12,
1837-
March 8,
1903), an American statesman, was born near Clinton,
Jones County, Georgia. He attended private schools there and in
Tuscaloosa,
Alabama. He was graduated from the
University of Georgia at Athens in 1858. He studied law and was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1859. During the
American Civil War he served in the
Confederate States Army as a private in the Second Georgia Battalion, Floyd Rifles for two years, and was later
lieutenant colonel for two years.
Blount served in the
United States Congress representing the sixth district of
Georgia from
1873 to
1893. He was Chairman of the
House Committee on Foreign Relations (1891-1893). He was appointed by
President of the United States Grover Cleveland to be the
United States Department of State Minister to Hawai'i with the mission of investigating the overthrow of the
Kingdom of Hawai'i and the administration of
Queen Lili'uokalani. The report he issued is known as the
Blount Report.
Blount died in
Macon,
Bibb County, Georgia, and was buried at the
Rose Hill Cemetery in
Macon, Georgia.
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