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Maj Benjamin Grubb Humphreys Jr.

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Maj Benjamin Grubb Humphreys Jr. Veteran

Birth
Claiborne County, Mississippi, USA
Death
16 Oct 1923 (aged 58)
Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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From the US Congressional Bioguide: HUMPHREYS, Benjamin Grubb, (father of William Yerger Humphreys), a Representative from Mississippi; born in Claiborne County, Miss., August 17, 1865; attended the public schools at Lexington, Miss., and the University of Mississippi at Oxford; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Greenwood, Miss.; superintendent of education for Leflore County 1892-1896; district attorney for the fourth district of Mississippi 1895-1903; raised a company in April 1898 for service in the Spanish-American War and was its first lieutenant, serving under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in Florida during the entire war; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death; chairman, Committee on Territories (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; died in Greenville, Miss., October 16, 1923; interment in Greenville Cemetery.
From the US Congressional Bioguide: HUMPHREYS, Benjamin Grubb, (father of William Yerger Humphreys), a Representative from Mississippi; born in Claiborne County, Miss., August 17, 1865; attended the public schools at Lexington, Miss., and the University of Mississippi at Oxford; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Greenwood, Miss.; superintendent of education for Leflore County 1892-1896; district attorney for the fourth district of Mississippi 1895-1903; raised a company in April 1898 for service in the Spanish-American War and was its first lieutenant, serving under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in Florida during the entire war; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death; chairman, Committee on Territories (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920; died in Greenville, Miss., October 16, 1923; interment in Greenville Cemetery.


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