Capt. William Henry Stiles, Sr., US Congress

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William Henry Stiles (January 1, 1808 – December 20, 1865) was a United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia. He was the grandson of Joseph Clay. Biography

Born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1808, Stiles attended high school at the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut. After graduating from Hopkins, Stiles studied law at Yale College, gained admittance to the state bar in 1831 and practiced law in Savannah. He served as the solicitor general for Georgia's eastern district from 1833 to 1836. In 1842, Stiles was elected as a Democratic Representative from Georgia to the 28th United States Congress and served one term from March 4, 1843, until March 3, 1845.[1]

On April 19, 1845, Stiles was appointed by U.S. President James Polk as chargé d'affaires to the Austrian Empire, a position which he held until October 1849.[2] He then returned to his beloved Etowah Cliffs in Cass County where he had a plantation, and lived with his wife Eliza Anne MacKay Stiles, and his children: Mary Cowper Stiles, William Henry Stiles Jr., and Robert MacKay Stiles, and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1858 and served as that body's speaker of the house.[1]

Stiles served as one of Georgia's at-large delegates to the commercial congress in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1858. Also in 1858 he delivered an address, Southern Education for Southern Youth, to the Cherokee Baptist College. He also was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. During the American Civil War, Stiles served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army. He died in Savannah on December 20, 1865 and was buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in that same city.

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US Congressman, Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Earned his J.D. degree at Yale and was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1831. Established his own law practice in Savannah and was appointed Attorney General (then called "Solicitor General") for the eastern district of Georgia in 1833, serving until 1836. He was then elected to represent Georgia as an At-Large Delegate in the United States House of Representatives, serving from March 1843 to 1845. Appointed Chargé d’Affaires to Austria by President Polk on April 19, 1845 and served until October 1849. Upon his return he resumed the practice of law in Savannah and became a member of the State House of Representatives, serving as Speaker of the House in 1858. He served as a delegate from the State-at-large to the commercial congress held at Montgomery, Alabama in 1858, and delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, Maryland in 1860. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he helped raise the 16th Georgia Infantry, and served first as a Captain, then as Colonel and commander of the regiment. His grandfather was Georgia Continental Congressman Joseph Clay.