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About James Addison Cravens, U.S. Congress
James Addison Cravens
BIRTH 4 Nov 1818 - Rockingham, Virginia
DEATH 22 Jun 1893 (aged 74) - Hardinsburg, Washington County, Indiana
BURIAL Hardin Cemetery, Hardinsburg, Washington County, Indiana, USA
MEMORIAL ID 21449016 · View Source
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US Congressman. He served as a Major in the United States Army during the Mexican War. Elected to represent Indiana's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1861 to 1865. He also served as a Candidate for Presidential Elector from Indiana in 1840, and 1872, a Member of the Indiana State House of Representatives from 1848 to 1850, and a Member of the Indiana State Senate from 1850 to 1852.
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James Addison Cravens (November 4, 1818 – June 20, 1893) was a nineteenth-century politician from Indiana. He was the second cousin of James Harrison Cravens.
Born in Rockingham County, Virginia, Cravens moved near Hardinsburg, Indiana with his father in 1820 where he attended public schools as a child. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and livestock raising, served in the Mexican-American War as Major (United States) of the 2nd Indiana Volunteer Regiment from 1846 to 1847 and was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1848 and 1849. Cravens served in the Indiana Senate from 1850 to 1853, was commissioned a brigadier general in the Indiana Militia in 1854 and was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1860, serving from 1861 to 1865, not being a candidate for renomination in 1864.
During the lame-duck session of the 38th Congress, he voted against the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. He was a delegate to the National Union Convention in 1866 and to the Democratic National Convention in 1868. He resumed agricultural pursuits until his death in on June 20, 1893. He was interred in Hardin Cemetery in Hardinsburg.
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James Addison Cravens, U.S. Congress's Timeline
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November 4, 1818
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Rockingham County, Virginia, United States
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| 1893 |
June 20, 1893
Age 74
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Hardinsburg, Washington County, Indiana, United States
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June 22, 1893
Age 74
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Hardin Cemetery, Hardinsburg, Washington County, Indiana, United States
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