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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