Eli Sims Shorter

Eli Sims Shorter ( born March 15, 1823 in Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia, † April 29, 1879 in Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama ) was an American politician and represented the state of Alabama in the U.S. Congress.

Career

Eli Sims Shorter was born on March 15, 1823 in Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia. His father, Dr. Reuben C. Shorter, a physician and planter, immigrated as a young man from Virginia to Georgia and became a leader of the emerging Jacksonian Party. 1833 Shorter's family moved to Eufaula, Barbour County, Alabama. There he attended the public schools and graduated in 1844 at Yale College (now Yale University), where he received his Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted as a lawyer in the same year and then opened a law practice with his brother, John Gill, in Eufalua, Alabama. In addition, he engaged in agriculture.

Shorter was elected as a Democrat to the forty-third and forty-fourth in the conference. His service extended from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859. Subsequently, he decided to dedicate his work as a lawyer in Eufaula, Alabama resume.

During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army in the rank of colonel of the eighteenth Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry of.

Eli Sims Shorter died on April 29, 1879 in Eufaula, Alabama. He was buried in the Fairview Cemetery.

Family

Eli Sims Shorter was with Marietta Fannin, a niece of Col. Fannin of " Alamo " married. They had four children together: Annie Bell, William A., Emory and Henry. His older brother John Gill Shorter was 1861-1863 Governor of Alabama.

Jasper County (Georgia) Georgia (U.S. state) Eufaula (Alabama) Barbour County (Alabama) Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Benjamin S. Turner Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston James Edwin Belser Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Burwell Boykin Lewis Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead Richmond P. Hobson William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth William M. Lowe Joseph Wheeler Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman)

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