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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
years, when he resigned ; delegate in the
national convention which nominated Blaine
for the presidency in 1884 ; mayor of Burke-
ville several years, and delegate to several
state conventions ; elected as a Republican
to the fiftieth congress (March 4, 1887-
March 3, 1889).
Garrison, George Tankard, born in Ac- comac county, Virginia, January 14, 1835; was graduated from Dickinson College, Car- lisle, Pennsylvania, in 1853, and from the law school of the University of Virginia in 1857; was admitted to the bar and prac- ticed law until the civil war ; entered the Confederate service as a private ; soon thereafter elected to the state legislature, and served in that body, first in the house and then in the senate, until the close of the war; practiced law and engaged in agricul- ture; elected judge of the eighth Virginia circuit in 1870, and subsequently judge of the seventeenth circuit ; elected as a Demo- crat to the forty-seventh congress (March 4. 1881-March 3, 1883) ; successfully con- tested the election of Robert M. Mayo to the forty-seventh congress ; died at Acco- mac Court House, \'irginia, Novemlier 14,
1889.
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Gibson, James King, born at Abingdon, Virginia, I-"ebruary 18, 1812; attended the common schools ; went to Limestone county, Alabama, in 1833, and engaged in business ; returned to Virginia, and was de- puty sheriff of Washington county, 1834- 1^35; postmaster of Abingdon, 1838-1849; engaged in farming; elected as a Democrat to the forty-first congress (March 4, 1869- March 3. 1871) ; died at Abingdon, Virginia, March 30, 1879.
Glass, Carter, born in Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, January 4, 1858, son of Maj. Robert
H. Glass, a prominent journalist, and Au-
gusta Christian, his wife, of an old and well-
known Virginia family. He attended pri-
vate and public schools until he was four-
teen years old, when he began learning the
printer's trade in the Lynchburg "Republi-
can" office, and was afterwards employed on
I he Petersburg "Post," his father being
editor of both these papers. From 1877 he
was for three years a clerk in the auditor's
office of the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio
Railroad. In 188c he took a position on the
staft' of the Lynchburg "News," under its
owner, Albert ^V'addill, laboring as a local
reporter and editorial writer. In 1888 he
purchased the "News," valued at $13,000,
his sole capital then being sixty dollars, but
he was backed by friends who had confi-
dence in his abilities. He soon brought his
paper to a higher plane of influence, and
prospered accordingly, and by 1895 'is had
added to his newspaper property the plants
of the Lynchburg "Virginian," and the
"Evening News." His abilities as a writer
are of a very superior order. In addition to
his journalistic work, his public activities
have been notable. He was clerk of the
Lynchburg city council for twenty years,
from 1881. He was a delegate to the Demo-
cratic National Conventions of 1892 and
1896, and in 1897 ^o the Democratic State
Convention in which body he made a notable
speech in presenting J. Hoge Tyler as a
candidate for the nomination for governor.
In 1899 he was elected to the state senate,
and in 1902, before his term had expired, he
v/as elected to the fifty-seventh congress, as
a Democrat, to succeed Peter J. Otey (de-
ceased), and has been returned to his seat
