Henry T. Ellett

Henry Thomas Ellett ( born March 8, 1812 in Salem, Salem County, New Jersey, † October 15, 1887 in Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American politician. In 1847 he represented briefly the fourth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Ellett attended the Latin School in Salem and the Princeton College. where he studied law. After his made ​​in 1833 admitted to the bar he began in Bridgeton to work in his new profession. In 1837 Ellett moved to Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi. There he worked as a lawyer.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Following the resignation of Jefferson Davis from the U.S. House of Representatives Ellett was elected to succeed him in the U.S. Congress in 1846 in the fourth district of Mississippi. There he finished between 26 January and 3 March 1847, the legislature begun by his predecessor. A renewed candidacy in the regular congressional elections of 1846 he refused. So he could just spend a little more than a month in Congress.

After retiring from Congress Ellett worked as a lawyer. From 1853 to 1865 he was a member of the Senate of Mississippi. In 1861 he was a member of the Assembly, which decided to exit the State of Mississippi from the Union. He was also one of the committee that drafted the resignation and announced. In February 1861 Ellett was offered the position of Postmaster General of the Confederate States, but he refused. After the Civil War was Ellett 1865-1868 Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. In 1868 he moved to Memphis, where he worked as a lawyer again. In 1886 he became Chancellor in the twelfth judicial district of the State of Tennessee. Thomas Ellett died on October 15, 1887 in Memphis, while he held a welcoming speech for President Grover Cleveland.

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