REAGAN, JOHN HENNINGER (1818-1905)

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REAGAN, JOHN HENNINGER (1818-1905) , American politician, was born in Sevier county, Tennessee, on the 8th of October 1818. He removed to

Texas

TEXAS

in 1839, was deputy surveyor of public lands in 1839-1843, was admitted to the bar in 1846, was a member of the state

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives
in 18491848, served as

district

DISTRICT

judge in 18521857, and in 18571861 was a representative in Congress. His political views were determined by the ultra-democratic influence of Andrew Jackson and the state-sovereignty philosophy of John C. Calhoun. In 1861 he was a member of the

Texas

TEXAS

secession convention, served in the Confederate provisional Congress, and on the 6th of March was appointed postmaster-general in President Davis's cabinet. He served in this capacity through-out the war, and for a short time before its close was also acting secretary of the treasury. He was captured with the Davis party on the loth of May 1865, and was imprisoned in Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, until the following October. While in prison he wrote the " Fort Warren

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

" (August 11th), in which he urged the people of Texas to recognize their defeat, grant civil rights to the freedmen, and try to conciliate the North. From 1875 to 1887, when he entered the U.S. Senate, he was again a representative in Congress, and from 1877 almost continuously to the close of his service he was chairman of the Committee on Commerce, in which capacity he had a prominent part in securing the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1876. In state politics his sympathies were with the Radicals. In 1891, believing that his first duty was to his state, he resigned from the Senate to accept the chairmanship of the newly established state railway commission. In 1901 he retired from public service. From 1899 until his death he was president of the Texas State Historical Association. He died at his

home

, near Palestine, Texas, on the 6th of March 1905.
See his Memoirs; with

Special

SPECIAL

Reference to Secession and the Civil War (New

York

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- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
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OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
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- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
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, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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, 1906), edited by W. F. McCaleb.

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