Jacob Golladay

Jacob Shall Golladay ( born January 19, 1819 in Lebanon, Tennessee, † May 20, 1887 at Russellville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1870 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jacob Golladay was the older brother of Edward Isaac Golladay (1830-1897), who represented 1871-1873 the State of Tennessee in Congress. He attended the common schools. In 1838 he moved to Nashville; from 1845 he was resident in Kentucky, where he practiced for a law degree as a lawyer.

Golladay was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1851 and 1853 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky; 1853 to 1855 he was a member of the State Senate. After the death of Mr Elijah Hise Golladay was the third electoral district of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 5 December 1867. After a re-election in 1868, he could remain until his resignation on February 28, 1870 in Congress. During this time, the failed impeachment of President Andrew Johnson fell.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Jacob Golladay worked as a lawyer in Allensville. He died on May 20, 1887 near Russellville; in this city he was also buried.

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