Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — SENATOR COLQUITT DEAD. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR COLQUITT DEAD.

Georgia Statesman Fame* Away Surrounded by Family and Friend*. United States Senator Alfred Holt Colquitt, of Georgia, died at his residence in Washington Monday. Around the bedside when he passed away were Senator Gordon and daughter, Mrs. Jones; Senator Colquitt's private secretary, his nephew, Mr. Bunn; his •on, Mrs. Colquitt, three unmarried daughters, and his daughter, Mrs. Marshall, of Chicago. Senator Colquitt was stricken with paralysis in July, 1892, and from that time forward was unable to walk around without assistance. Senator Colquitt was born in Walton County, Georgia, the son of the Rev. Walter T. Colquitt, an eminent minister in his day, April 20, 1824. He was graduated from Princeton college in the class of 1844 and admitted to the bar, in 1845. During the Mexican war he served as a staff officer, with the rank ot major. He was a member of the Georgia Legislature in 1859 and was elected to the House of Representatives in the Thirty-third Congress. He was a member of the secession convention of the State of Georgia, and later entered the Confederate service as Captain and was soon promoted to be Colonel of the Sixth Georgia Infantry. Later he served as Brigadier General and was commissioned as Major General. He was elected Governor of Georgia in 1876, served four years, and was re-elected under the new constitution for two years. At the expiration of his term as Governor he wis elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing Mafbh 4, 1883, and was re-elected in 1888.