Malcolm Daniel Graham
Born: July 6, 1827
Birthplace: Autauga County, Alabama
Father: John Graham 1793 – 1865
(Buried: Graham – Hall Cemetery, Henderson, Texas)
Mother: Jeanette Smith 1798 – 1850
1st Wife: Amelia Cunningham Ready 1831 – 1859
(Buried: Graham – Hall Cemetery, Henderson, Texas)
2nd Wife: Sarah Cornelia Bethea 1835 – 1905
(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama)
Children:
Edward A. Graham 1852 – 1904
(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama)
Jeanette Graham 1855 – Unknown
(Buried: Graham – Hall Cemetery, Henderson, Texas)
Eliza Hall Graham 1857 – Unknown
(Buried: Graham – Hall Cemetery, Henderson, Texas)
Mary Palmer Graham Phelan 1857 – 1907
(Buried: Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)
Malcolm Amelionis Graham 1859 – 1926
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Prattville, Alabama)
Effie Graham Crittenden 1869 – 1938
(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama)
Political Party: Democratic Party
Education:
Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Wetumpka, Alabama
1853: Clerk of the Alabama State House of Representative
1854: Left Alabama and moved to Texas settling in Henderson
1857 – 1859: Texas State Senator
1859 – 1861: Texas State Attorney General
1860: John C. Breckinridge Presidential Elector from Texas
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Texas State Secession Convention
1861: Raised a regiment at the start of the war
His campaign for Congress was conducted by his friends.
1862 – 1864: Confederate States Congressman from Texas
1862 – 1864: Member of House Ways and Means Committee
His only proposal was an unsuccessful attempt to exempt from military service all men on the Texas frontier.
He disliked most taxes and condemned high hand use of martial law
Supported an aggressive action on the part of Congress and President
1863: Unsuccessful Candidate for reelection to Confederate Congress.
1864: Colonel and Judge of Military Court Trans Mississippi
1864: Captured at Natchez, Mississippi crossing Mississippi River
1864 – 1865: Prisoner of war held at Johnson’s Island Union Prison
1865: Reappointed Colonel and Chief Judge of Military Court of the Texas Army Corps in Trans Mississippi Department.
Occupation after War:
Attorney in Montgomery, Alabama
Leader against the Radical Reconstruction Policies in Alabama
Chairman of the Conservative Democratic Party
1877: Declined Consideration for office of Governor of Alabama
Died: October 8, 1878
Place of Death: Montgomery, Alabama
Age at time of Death: 51 years old
Burial Place: Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama
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