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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Henry McDaniel Biography McDANIEL,
Henry Dickerson (1837-[1926] ). An American public official, born at Monroe,
Ga. He graduated from Mercer University in 1856 and was admitted to the bar, was
a member of the Secession Convention of Georgia in 1861, and on the outbreak of
the Civil War entered the Confederate army, in which he rose to the rank of
major in the Eleventh Georgia Infantry. In 1865 he was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention, in 1873-74 served in the State House of
Representatives and in 1874-83 in the State Senate, and from 1883 to 1886 was
Democratic Governor of Georgia. The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
549.
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