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MAYNARD, Horace

MAYNARD, Horace
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MAYNARD, Horace
1814–1882

Office

Representative

State/Territory

Tennessee

Party

American, Opposition Party, Republican, Unconditional Unionist, Unionist

Congress(es)

35th (1857–1859), 36th (1859–1861), 37th (1861–1863), 39th (1865–1867), 40th (1867–1869), 41st (1869–1871), 42nd (1871–1873), 43rd (1873–1875)

Leadership Positions

Republican Conference Chair - 43rd

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Biography

MAYNARD, Horace, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Westboro, Worcester County, Mass., August 30, 1814; attended the common schools of Westboro and the Millbury (Mass.) Academy, where he afterward taught, and graduated from Amherst College, Mass., in 1838; professor at the University of East Tennessee 1839-1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election to the Thirty-third Congress in 1853; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1852 and on the Republican ticket in 1864; elected as an American Party candidate to the Thirty-fifth Congress, as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress, and as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1863); attorney general of Tennessee 1863-1865; delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; upon the readmission of the State of Tennessee to representation was elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the four succeeding Congresses and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1875; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-third Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 1874; Minister to Turkey from March 9, 1875, until May 1880; appointed Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Hayes and served from June 2, 1880, to March 5, 1881; died in Knoxville, Tenn., May 3, 1882; interment in Old Gray Cemetery.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Library of Congress
Manuscript Division

Washington, DC
Papers: 1875. 1 letter.

New-York Historical Society

New York, NY
Papers: November 26 and 30, 1855; February 9 and 26, 1856. 4 letters. Finding aid in repository.

University of Tennessee Libraries
Special Collections

Knoxville, TN
Papers: 1828-1926. 3 feet (ca. 1,000 items). Correspondence, diaries, business and financial papers, printed material, and photographs relating to his family and career. Unpublished calendar in library. Restricted.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Marshall, Kendrick. "Horace Maynard: A Tennessee Statesman." Master's thesis, Tennessee State A & I University, 1960.

Maynard, Horace. Admission of Kansas. [Washington]: Printed by L. Towers, [1860].

------. A Discourse. Knoxville, Tenn.: A. Blackburn & Co., 1853.

------. Necessity and Effect of the Ku Klux Law. Washington: F. & J. Rives & G. A. Bailey, printers, 1872.

------. Political education; an address, delivered before the Social Union of Amherst College at the annual commencement, Wednesday, August 8, 1860. Boston: Press of G.C. Rand and Avery, 1861.

------. Retain the tariff--abolish the internal revenue. [N.p., 1872].

Mayo, Robert. A review of the report of Hon. Horace Maynard, chairman of the Committee of Investigation, into the conduct and accounts of William Cullom, late clerk of the House of Representatives; and an exposition of the frauds practiced on the Treasury, the contingent fund of the House, and on individuals, by the said William Cullom. [Washington: N.p., 1859].

Williams, Gladys I. "The Life of Horace Maynard." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, 1931.

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